The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 20, 1925, Page 10

ee APPLELR WIFE Oy Beatrice Burton © 1925 NEA SERVICE ING THE STORY SO FAR ged He takes bh wife. Gloria begins to s' is in love with his se Wh two Widens da Finally G use, sin eans Dick's little reaks her put. the the vases and smoking stand, Tt almost b heart because I house up f That sher_ mo Dick. In it Is Moria takes it b @ job as stenog ul 4ANOW GO ON WITH THE STORY) { Then he tpok his “General Dawe ipipe from his pocket, and went into ‘the living room. He switched on the lights there, and od short sstaring. | There was a of y fon the table that stood bes larm-chair. They had not b week ago! tand was in perfect order. } And beside it on the imequare of crumpled cambric de his there floor lay a His smoking | Gloria's handkere -Lof her in its scented fo ’ a's " t \ =y ' Aw a h | marks ¢ ill where th clot I Ait Di at , hair and Hat tb tke his The initial aintly of mimosa t his nostr it brought back to of G 80 keenly and of perfun men m with him! almost see he temmed could | into the vase, dusting off the smokingstand with her fluttering | little hands. He could hear her Iliting voice sa Tikky-Tavyy, 1 need a ‘Oh, Dick, why | worry abe He found elf staring at the telephone on its teak-wood table in } the hal had to do was to give te ria that he And in a few min Al he a num wanted ICK walked slowly He picked up the te ave the familiar num Gordon home. He could hear Central ringing it Then, resolutely, he snapped the er back on its hook, \and instrument down on the 1 roses | table He stood there looking at it, With his hand raised to his Ups, he pressed hiet hard against them. ; That bit of cambric seemed to hold some of the fragrance Her hair HESeen & Olive Roberts Barton NO. 20—A TRIP THRU DIXIE LAND Jugsie Jump and the Twins fol-} wouldn't mind having a few buttons, Movement. Then she lay down on the lowed Will O° the Wisp’s lantern along the path in Dixie Land. Mister Will had fastened his little Gdoat to a log at the edge of t pend, and taken his lantern and ‘walked into the woods “£ stay in the woods or on the Water most of the time,” he said ‘Tt is seldom that I let people come near me.” + “We are near to you,” said Nick. Just because you have magic said tho little fairyman. “Besides I always like to do people ja favor, and if I can help the Fairy Queen by looking for Puff's lost ‘buttons, I shall be very happ PWhere are all the notes we wrote?” “Here!” said Nancy, tapping her ‘pron pocket. * So they walked along, and along ‘and along. They left a note at Colonel Pos- ‘sum’s front door under the button- ball tree, "80 as not to waken the poor tired mtleman. ‘Then Will O’ the Wisp picked up his lantern and led the way to the next place. By and by they came to a high| tree. “Mister Turkey Buzzard lives | here,” said Will. “Who will climb up?" “No need to climb,” Jump, stepping forward. “That's what I am here for—to stretch to the sky if necessary. All I have to do is to press one of my magic but- tons marked ‘stretch’ and up I go."| handy,” re- Wisp. “I “It must come marked Will O° in the sliding it in very softly | said Juggle | ; ke that myself. Give him the note, Nancy and let him put it into Mister Turkey and’s nbst strete Jur Jropped the t “That's that picking up his hg on again. be Billy Bob Cat 1 hope he doesn’t waken,” k. | “Well, perhaps it would be bet- |ter if he didn’t,” sald Mister Will “He is a touchy sort of person tf he doesn't know you very well, and his claws are sharp.” You may be sure that the note ped under Mister Billy Bob © carefully tn will oO lantern and atop sald the sald Cat's door under the big rock, as quietly as a snowflake falls on Christmas. And Mister Billy Bob Cat never wakened. | They next went to the tree where Mrs. Cuckoo lived and left a note. After t they went to the home of the mocking bir The next place was the cardinal. bird's house. Then they went to the seashore and left a note at Mrs. Pelican's house “That's enough,” sald Will O° the Wisp. “By 9 o'clock tomorrow ‘all Dixie Land will have the n And if any of Puffs buttons c this far, they are sure to be found."* | The notes all sald: “If you seo a large, round, shiny, white thing, | please telephone to Mister Will O* the Wisp, Dixie Land. Reward.” (To Be Continued.) | (Copyright, 1925, N. BE. A Service, Ine.) LETTER FROM LESLIE PRES COTY TO RUTH BURKE— CONTINUED I am looking for another letter from Sally very soon. Jack to think she won't write me again seems before she comes home, but I am sure she will, for Sally is more apt to be confident and tell you about in letters herself and her affairs than she 1g by word of mouth. You| when he was a little boy just like I| know there are people in this world like that—in fact, dear, I think I'm that way. This is a terribly long letter. I expect you are tired of reading it. I'm feeling none the worse for my dip into the water; and between us, dear, altho I'm not quite ready to die, 1 think death when you are having an awfully good time—a death that came suddenly and just wiped you out—would be ideal Don't say when you read this that I'm growing morbid, for I'm not. I am happier than I have been in a long time. I certainly have been kinds of thrills lately, Good-bye, dear, for this time. having all (AAvertinement) HAY FEVER BANISHED IN TWENTY-FOUR HOURS Cleveland Specialist’s Prescription Guaranteed to Relieve ‘Tens of thousands of Hay Fever Gufferers have been given Instant Telief by Dr, Platt’s famous Rinex Prescription. Medical science has Giscovered that this baneful disease in not a mere surface irritation, but that {t comes from plant pollens absorbed into the blood. This Causes a deep-neated poisoning, The Rinex Prescription, taken tn- ternally in capsule form, actually Feaches this vicious polsoning and Neutralizes jt. Sneezing usually stopa in half an hour, Runny none, fore \tching eyes, headache, fever: all these symptoms disappear, ‘This in the Rinex guarantee, You fit complete relief in twenty-four! ours or the $1.00 purchase price in| Fefunded by the druggist Whom you buy, inex is also guaranteed for h Fever, Catarrh, Asthma and Colds, You can get it from any food druge| SWII25 by The Clinical Lab, Con Cleveland, O, from 6 4 I hate monotony, and! Be} sure and bring Walter over to see my newly furbished house. It ts very lov I am going to add a I!ttle more to this letter to tell you about little | | Jack. He just came in to tell me |that “there's a queer old yady | downstairs who keeps kissing me. Jand I don’t want her | Muvver."’ he is your grandmother, Jacky. | She used to be your father’s mother |am yours now.” | “My Daddy did not yove her like |I do you,” ho said earnestly. “How do you know that, Jack, | dear?” | “Well, no ‘Ittle boy yoves a yady pst is always asking him to kiss her.” Now I ask you, dear Ruth, if that ig not just like a man, Little k wants to do the kiss ing. He just wants you to be there ready to be kissed whenever he feels | like kissing you, "But Grandma wants you to kiss | her, boysie,"” 1 remonstrated “Well, I don't want to kiss her,’ he answered stoutly; “and beside, | she has got an old hairy mole on her chine and {t scratches,” I knew ff I opened my mouth to | scold him, I would laugh, so 1 just [kept still, L little son! Ruth, 1 sometimes feel that if we could only see it we wounl understand that everything was for the best. I wag very un- happy when I learned that little | Jack was my husband's child, but 1 am sure that he has given me more happiness than ell the unhappiness of that time. Altho something } gone out of my life that will never come back into It, my eldest son hag re} the grief and pain caused me. He has brought son thing into my heart I would never have had but for him, Now I must close. 1 hear John's mother talking In the hall, 1 can not keep away from her any longer et Tam sure he unwittingly C1110. The Seattle Star.) TOMORROW—Letter from ney Catton to Pawla Perrier, | (Copyright, 192; Syd to kiss me, | ald me for all | come! he sald, disgustedly him self, as the car rolled along the road. He Kk out his watch an@ looked He aimlessly aro the t i the ak et a Lover ame moon that had | the vers of Babylon nl looked down on the ce abroad t q the immorta Two, a Man and a Girl And then, almost without surprise Dick found himself turning into the street where Gloria lived, He seemed to have known all along that thi was where ho was going He passed the house, with his eyes straight ahead of him. But halfway jown the street, he ped in b neat ed back at the gra arred it. There was a light in ped, Its brak amed tillness of the str udder ward tr r flight. Its taillight wink like @ small, evil eyo aa it turned the corner knowing it was Gloria heard tt gett » looked at What wa ahe g ready for elf in th reaner, mirror beauty wasn't there to oft hair might just ax well be drab of red gold in all its deep waves, And her mouth why he had grown tired of kissing her? Gloria turned away her head so that she couln't seo her reflec tion. She put up her hand, and turned out the light, with a vicious little Vahould Jt be shaped for kinses, when bed, and tried to sleep. It was past midnight, before she finally dropped off. brought in the n “Help Wanted” ¢ were what she 4 Sho went quic thru them, and | marked two or three that looked | promising. She'd go do | thing in the morning, and fi | thing to do. + + That was the | th to keep busy! To keep from | thinking? When she heard her mother mov ing und in the kitchen, she dre and hurried downstairs to help her | “We won't have much for break fast Just some berries and | toast and coffee, I thought,” Mrs ordon said. “Your Aunt Dorcas al THE SEATTLE STAR 1 1 Aunt Dorcas turned re) ‘The girl knew she ‘ ar te Proachful eyes upon} in the room a moment longer. It We're & to name her Doreas,| was none unt’s businens arse,” Lal sa Why, she's from D t «1 fot ‘ u A Dorcas beame but hie ¥ a 1 leferred t Head of the H And t te ( ® ¢ Aunt Dorea They mo and Dick prayer no they can talk mo ¢ fully to herself, ate the hot | afterward herry ple that followed the meal he turned swiftly toward the wide | doorway that led out into the hall 7 i of the house. “I've got to go,” she fon nald wildly, "I promised May Se wit mour I'd go for walk with h f Nn It wasn't until she was out Vg roow jewalk that she realized tha Your mother tells me you've gone ' rie Gloria’ she beenn | Se¥mour wasn't In towr prob th we RARE ‘Oh, well, what if they do know C fear tac’ th. “Why | that T fibbed to them?” she thought I'm used tow " everyone's buxiness don't deserve the Doesn't this young Gre ntend | trutl to give you a red cent?” Aunt Dorcas |” But she hatet herself for lying went on with her investigat He's nent me mor he walked slowly away from the «a back to him, I didn’t where Family were wt t.” Gloria " ling thelr counsel, Bt , h Woll, Gloria’s having what old Aun the way tick Gree nd noothed by t wt 1 n " A ahe v vu the mid At last she Jo about f Dont nde y more than | own upon tt, exhau: r heat ind bene empty iid take his money, | her exes Sho dreamed that she was in the mh elena, hall of her own ho her fat alimony?’ | Bouse and Dick and that } + mult ¢ | But between them, there seemed wounded eyes paan ove She Ar dream, Gloria was tr he her oft and after | !ne t wall 4 while D Aunt Dorcas’ strident tone watched he gravely, Just No, there won't be any divorcee,” | he might have stood, looking at he that soft voice sald yeh a thing| had the dream been life, sta an divorce has never been this | The sense of his nearncns v [real to Gloria that when she family There jen't anything | for Gloria to do that I can see. ened and opened her eyen, suddenly here are severs he can, "he wasn't # led by man who ared Aunt Dor he was wide or 5 Dick es St Ores " Gloria said to him, thic ‘ sa ome rape wan Just dreaming about yor wants I guens I wan asleer aud Gloria haa| 20" Were!’ D "It 1 t ef 1 t aw om Ho handed her her tittle bead bag which had dropped to the ground. “Haven't I told you before that! ur suppose it’s full of your weeh that's the one thing I can't do! she o 2 “ wages,” he added, dropping dow ted out. “I've been on my knees tha babel eeide har’ 6 to Dick to take mo back, if you must know! And he won't have me b He's and tired of me! Dor know, . . .” Aunt Gregory blond head. “Th ir of t you get a Job? ing me w going back t Were you Just you mid you were wi (To Be Continued) large, lod her ere's more IMPORTANT! WILL o remarked sagel: There be a noquel It will be unleas one ¢ em prominent read her thoug! ough — , eee a = Handed ss z eal sonal = MUDD CENTER FOLKS A Ta | ways has such big dinners that wo'll | all be sick if we eat too nev } With a shudder, Gloria remem- | bered that they were going to Aunt | Dorcas’ house for er! 1 o'clock went. Aunt Do: Tushe and beaming, wel- comed thern with her best manner as Head of the House, Uncle Henry small and silent, stood behi And as Head of the Ho Aunt Dorcas took hi aco t 1 the platter of stuffed, roasted vea able. Aunt I just as she alway family car Cousin Lulu and her band, Geo drove the young } New Baby, they explained was ta her nap upstairs on Aunt D bed. “What are you going to name her?" joria asked innocently. | FLAPPER FANNY says: | right with what is left, Many a young couple starts out i $0 HES TH’ ONE | WHO'S BEEN WRITIN T’ HER Ev'RY Day! 7 AN’ SHE DION’T COME T’ TH’ Post OFFICE T’ DAY FoR HER LeTTER! AUNT FANNY BUZZ ALWAYS SAID WATCH THE LITTLE THINGS AND ‘YOU CAN TELL HOW BIG THINGS WILLTURN OUT~~ THE ARRIVAL OF & HANDSOME YOUNG STRANGER AND THE FAILURE OF THE PRETTY NEW BOARDER AT GRANDMA HOP= KINS’ HOUSE TO COME To THE PoST OFFICE FoR HER Daily LETTER IS ENOUGH TO CONVINCE MUDD CEN= TER'S GOSSIPS THAT SOMETHING IS WRONG IN DENMARK~~ WHAT ARE THE PRETTY BOARDER’S INTENTIONS REGARDING BANKER ZEB PERKINS? ©1925 my wEA seMice. Inc. 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