The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 26, 1925, Page 10

PAGE 10 MAY SIEYMOUIR | FOOTLOOSE by” BENTIRICE BURTON SEQUEL TO"2fe FLAPPER WIFE" SEYM . EY MOUF MAY DR. Jc HN . t ® convert ash and « { will kn i ashe may : Dick p i for her. 1 t | many had many a woman And the sig to have no more e er cry of tears had come upon him man, than the sound of laughter, The pass. i ing years had made him hard—hard, i ANd cold, as Bessemer steel. i His dead wife, Sarah, had always i cried when she wanted her own way d His onty ¢ y, had always cried wh er own way. | Ulysses was ars. For 30 Ha years his life had been dampened by it them. But the weeping of the slim woman who sat bes! his desk at this ment was not © any other \ that Ulysses had ever witnesse For one thing, May made no notse When she cried. She did not, as} Ulysses put it to himself, “blubber.” Her nose did not swell. Her eyes| did not redden The tears simply rolled from them down upon her tvory checks, and her scarlet mouth trembled. Sho etied beautifully, dabbing her eyes with a small handkerchief. “There, there!’ Ulysses found him. gelf saying in the soothing tone a father might have used to calm hi ¢rying baby. “Don't cry. Don’ May drew a long sobbing br “All right," she faltered. her eyes t Uylesses got up and walked over to the window. ing it very & on be he sald, as if| my @ Sudden, arresting thought come.to her, “are a man of iron. Saw that the minute I you. ‘There,’ I said to myself, man of tron.” husband shot bimself—that !t}mou had} was because T} Jimm I was in love with| pu = : T-laid eyes on} ed uncom air. It 1 @ woman had take: falk to him about himself to nim. “It's true,” he answered “that life has made Stony, perhaps, Mrs. Seymot Balad no,” mee shook hi head. He looked down at hands, | that time?" jones crumble, sometim Tron} Hard, » calloused they} “on, no!’ M 7 t doesn't! You're fron! You wouldn’t| were, t and | der ane tian terete care if people said cruel, scandalous | winds. things about you. You wouldn't feel! surely! Mt, would you? . . . And certain! Ho p: You wouldn't be cowardiy enough to| downwa: run away!” | should Ulysses took off his horn-rimmed | heard t! lasses, and looked sharply at May. | gaye. But she "ls that what you're doing? Rin-| There was Ing away?” he asked. “Is that why | offic You want to séi! your house? Reed never set foot in Seattle aga May nodded. She pressed he! Randkerchief to her gyes, once more. *Iecan't face them .. . the people looking down into thi in this town.” she sobbed. “You | of Seneca st Probably know what they sald when! “Now, about your house, Mes. Sey —$<$<$<$ — — (AGYvS MMURESF OF THE PUNT » Olive Roberts Barton NO. 1—TICK TOCK THE CLOCK FAIRY ot the hands of an old man,| very unhappy and very to anything—is be here, where peoplo movement *, for just an do you know, been here for Miterrupted. whe stood with his hen they*ve been and then, you're Koing out to And I'm go her that’s the only th WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 26, BY SWAN THE SEATTLE STAR t LETTER FROM MELVILLE SAK POKIS TO LESLIE PRESCOTT tudded CONTINUED v I f v re my mind te ady out i ) 1 « Vi 1 ft bea ever k i Th t ru . I } r f beaut ne 1 mo bs ' the ¥ ox " t 1 ed t 5 e bet t 1 ald | th ire r 1 » either side » hay wtened to the yers, ¥ have | and the f h ‘ t wt if sometimes yur boys, you wo er th THERE IT re ay TOMORROW—Letter from Syd ney Carlion to Leslie Prescott and then! he sald defiant + [01925 BY wea BEmvice “wm: MARTIN ae at! BOOTS AND HER BUDDIES PY . ) m t] oH SO THIS 16 THE «|| WHY TAKE A "y work “INN’? BY THE | | GOOD LOOK AT Ho Costin f ; WAY CORA ~ WHAT THE LITILE CASHIER He RSA share WAS IT You SAID OVER THERE ER BEFORE "May," Dick Gregor YOO WERE GOING | | POSSIBLY — You YO SHOW ME ? KNOW HER ? IN MY LIFE. (M NEARLY POSITIVE THAT 1S LITTLE | SADIE HOBBS. MY HOW SHE HAS | GROWN! YES SIR-WE USED To BE | Fai | i 6 } No ,WAIT~ LET | SWEETHEARTS LONG, LONG AGO WHEN fi ‘ ME THINK. | WE WERE SO HIGH. WELL! WELL! WELL, BY JOVE ~ WELL! WHAT A SORPRISE You { GAVE ME. n HES & GooD LooKiN’ NM OF COURSE IT WAS YOUNG FELLAH BUT zeBs |) HIS MONEY — TH’ 7D WRITE To ALE NEY LY Ww AN TE A I CANT ¢ r | MONEY PROBLY WON On TH WITH IMA WILL You HER — WA BE SURE To Pur STANP ON [T—A RED - DONT There, lookin. in a lony tassel gy down at them was a funny little fairyman, cap. | “Listen, Nancy,” sald Nick, “The Big clock {s striking 5. We had Detter go in and get cleaned up for tea. We promised mother.” “The clock Nancy. him as he travels over the world? If you want to go, I have the magic green shoes right here,” t to go in to tea,” was wrong,” “I heard Daddy tell Mother sald should and so you sha id the little lady. “If yor that it was five minutes fast. He | "ot good obedient children I shoul faid something must have gone you this p Wrong, for it is the first time I shall leave t Sges and ages that the old clock the chimni hasn't kept the right time. So our room. Put them have five minutes to finish these | “Pat happens. Fairy timo is magic mud ples and set them to dry.” time—much can eh in a very “1 know what is wrong with the |200rt While. You will be back home Old clock,” said a new vi and asleep long be morning.” them. “It is because m 7 aha fairy has too much to do and can't {plead the de get around to all the places. he) NtNCr had kia go0d-nigh should go.” 4 fixed their ws for the| A girl who mar for in, and then| often geta scnae later on There stood the Fairy Queen be I BOUGHT A GREEN I UKE To Do | STAMP ‘CAUSE THEY | | | THINGS FoR FRECKLES — WOT CHEAPER THAN | MeL LAD WHEN, \ TH REDONES! . J | | L 1 TELL HIM How $ | | \_ I SAVED HIM A A ||}, PEAAY, EVERYBODY IN MUDD CENTER IS FEELING SORRY Albanese | : FOR THE HANDSOME YOUNG MAN WHo Has MINUTES BEEN PAYING SO MUCH ATTENTION TO THE Caer PRETTY BOARDER AT GRANDMA HOPKINS’ HOUSE, SINCE THE LETTER To ZEB PERKINS FOUND ON THE STREET REVEALED THE Date. OF HIS MARRIAGE To HER ~—~— © 1025 BY WEA SERVICE, INC. money PINS HY wea sence. me door as she went | — hopped out and ran over to| aide a big pink phlox, looking lke @ lovely blossom herself. MOM’N POP “Your clock-maker!" cried the plece. Twins together, forgetting their as the Fairy Queen had THIS GOOD COUNTRY Manners in their surprise 1, were. the green shoes! AIR. 1S GIVING ME AN AWFUL APPETITE ~L “Yes," nodded her Royal High- vd better get dressed before WISH WE COULD Ness. “About the most useful of put them on,” said a voice GET SOMETHING all my fairy helpers, too, Tick, . man’ \ % Tock is. He keeps all the clock looki at them was | the world in order—or—tries to,|% funny little fairyman, in a long « Ho is a busiew person than Mister | ta#el-cap, In one hand he carried Banta Claus on Christmas Eve. of |“ oll can, in another a big key, and under his arms he held a bele lows. There no doubt in the course he has helpers—hundreds of little clock fairies who go about. oil. ing and dusting and tinkering, but, World that It Tick Tock. he does a 16t himself. Would you, Suddenly he laughed like to go on an adventure “Why you are dressed already!” ee =} he cried, “And the magic shocs e have jumped onto your feet, <A ick relief from pain, T must je alor tm event shoe pressure, on a bi nue Atdrugandshoe storeseverywhere nd I hay k at once, | ne downstairs and I'll fix the big | ull clock first.’ (To Be Continued.) (Copyright, 1945, N. 1, A. Bervice, Inc.) Dr Scholls BY TAYLOR ? - MAYBE T Jf THEY'LL KNOW HEY THAR! ° DON'T GET TAM-AN' UM HURRY MRGONN . IF YOULL STOP. THE CAR CANGET Cl SovRe A TOURIST WHAT'S TH! IDEA OF FRESH WITH ME |} NO WICKS ETHER Jf AND PICK'EM UP — LLL Go UP To THAT ORCHARD } SOME. AND MAKE You TRESPASSIN’ THROUGH J? You OLD HICK= CONSARN YE! -S(_ HERE COMES THE FARMHOUSE AND TRY APPLES \\ Pay A GOOD THIS FIELD ~ CANT YE WHO'S THE To GET SOME FROIT NOTHING? SEE THIS SIGN? Reade