The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 4, 1925, Page 14

Ai easeaettN terete E: stared at h “You've lost (ere Seo? OF PHS PUNT & Olive Roberts Barton NO. 9—THE LITTLE MOUNTAIN MEN PAGE 14 oy THE STORY so PAR n) vers alt w M CAREW ' past ver where. And . p he mind ¢ to Burop will know t She turns over } st Wealthy widower, ULYSSES X, FOR GAN, to s 1 ghe begs she wants ay ‘ h Gmoney a the pa . Wealthy widow for a few months, « that she can “land” a rich husband A week later w $4,000 in het hanitbag she goce to Atlantle Cit for a rest before sailing. There st Meets a divorce ARLOTTA two friends URY and DAN inners in a whows her snapshots house {n Brookline, He tells May that he is ®& widower with one daughte that he would like to nie at th of his ff he's pre fides he's not, Dut What life with him w ENOW GO ON WITH THE STORY) IRE fourse had dined tate, “ and it was almost midnight be store they left the splenaid main din Toom or tné Ambassador. Out-of-doors there was a white f them go| | moon, -A high wind seemed to blow the foaming breakers in from the ocean. | “Oh, isn't It gorgeous?’ May ried, wrapping velvet pe around her anced | ike those of a gy lowing hair. @ “You're gorgeous!” Herbert an fwered her, “Your eyes are blue lack diamonds tonight & He stopped in his tracks those black pearls | / “I will tell you bout the people in Switzerland and hy it is that they carve so many ely clocks and things out of Wood."* y “Xes, tell them,” said the little len mountain men, “and tell about us, too.” “All right,” said the cuckoo. “I It is pretty hard for people who live im mountain countries*to make ** said the little bird. “Sum-| flat places where grain grows and the people can keep cows. Some times they can grow grapes and fhaye gardens, too. But {t is such high country that winter starts ¥, and there is so much snow | t the people have to shut the mals up in the barns and them. ves up in their hous¢s for most ot the cold weather. “The women spin and sew and housework in winter, but there Nothing for the men to do after ithe animals are fed night and morn- Ging. So they carve lovely things| Bout of wood, trays and chests and Sichaira and tables and a great many} locks. They carve wooden cuckoos | id put in them, because they id of the cuckoo bird that visits m every summer and sings in maples and birch trees on the lower part of untains and in the valleys.” “Why do they ‘put the little jooden men in the clocks?” asked | fick. “Now they're coming to us," sald e tiny fellows, nodding solemnly it each other. | “Yes, now I'm coming to you,”} the cuckoo. “You see the farm houses and| rma are in the valleys. And often / i is not room for the cows to! that | the Berren FROM MABEL CARTER) geance, I'm tired of thrills. TO JOSEPH DOWNEY— | want to have enotigh to eat and a =. CONTINUED. Now, Joe, I will never have a the cuckoo on} feed In the summer. |. because there are | ta ance to get even with anybody.| streak and say I never had a chance, | have no money it 25 cents yesterday and sinkers. I couldn't get away I wanted to, left at, You have me have trusted you, Joe. 1 have! S ought to have known better than | misfortune has dogged my footstep: Sheen gypped by #o many crooks t Should never have trusted another again. But the don was old, Joe, d I knew if [ married him my life mas over; I would never have Affair of any kind again “iid¥enture to me, Joey tanined to have one las dwell, I've had i. nd I deter. ad fling—| * Now, in tears and curses at my | on for life, and I'v t folly, I am wisning, as probably ev @ry other sinner since Eve Don Sparta was at a aman of honor, ye cared for me a i terrible thing. least a gentleman {and he would h fiong as 1 lived. I ex-| I got mn and all out $ What a fool I’ve been, Joe! t pected to leate you as soon as q my half of the Jewels, but I've ducceeded in finding myself alon tarving. Beside, I'm frightene: he time, I don't dare to go } anywhere, I’m so afraid that some- tone will nab me, I'm sure Jimmie i recognized me the other day Please, Joo, even if you don't care for me any more, give me enough t money to go back to #outh Ame: } If the old don isn’t dead, ! he able to make myself a home, No more adventure for me—I'm tired of j all this crookedness, I’ tired of veo an | bec You meant} could gi has | str fwishes that I had never done this | eve I «till may | (Copyright | | | thing that has even known me, and mont of all just now, something t MAB 5, NEA Service, Ine.) TOMORKOW—Euitorial from. the Pittsburgh Sun. MAY SEYMOUR FOOTLOOSE BEATRICE BURTON SEQUEL TO" D4e FLAPPER WIFE” THE SEATTLE STAR —_—— $$ what you 1 the] his money if ‘ Watert o| WwW ‘ . all ne “Mr. Wate . a6 Herbert May | days of Ootot lon't "you want | Wh 4s reading the morn tead of 'M ing king cotfee t ‘repeated the word | Carlott no grested } th, if you'll forgive | Swimming to seome & blooming the lobby f five t Vi forgiv u for saying ; “ope running up to them And hur 1 ft I've quarreled with, Dan,” she! wonderf sald, “And I ditched him, J In lens ( M take me under your wing, you! in her bath Sewn on: the two! wide expanse of sand, It wast There w tpens written inh ard to find Carlotta and the t trembled, May was sure that it was|at thin time of the year not she who bad quarreled with) A br 1 young Mfeaaver car Dan, It was more than likely that| along, and smiled into her eyes & ho had sald something to hurt her) he passed her How did you and Dan hap to| said. "The water’n awfully cold t quarrel he asked the crestfaller tt : wy little woman as the ped into the elevator him. He ‘Oh, he began that willyou-mar this (1 ext RON OVER 1TH “eeTERN NWRANCE CO BAD PA MY DUES OF \ "ar raed vA at SALES ANTI Ae Vig SALESMAN §$ HAN 4ON'D MAKE & LOT AM \SE. “OUR || SPERM for | THEMSELVES eas a Moon! NT HAUE To VERTISE — ;\ reas 4 J q { VEEN E He AL THEM SELVES, WHAT —( SAM HILL do} WOU SELL? AABN 5 (ce “Pal FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, || PHONOGRAPHS / ey (— w talk of hin h anid with athetic attempt i } tearm. Just to tears with Herbert Wa k And as if she wanted to pro had to admit that that a proposal of marriage from athing mult ow not Dan Sprague really did bore he x Herbert of a tweed tears, she an to or uit, © dinner coat May put arm around her mehow or other, he gave th | and left the elevator with her at| impre of flabbine | the sixth floor Arete setting-up — exere | Look here, Mra, Frolking,”’ she in't hurt Ch Ma ue maid severely you mustn't let g a U ame up to him lof yourself this way? But he is } nome, after a Carlotta was rapidly becoming to her an he took he hysterical. She herself down and smiled his cordial, delight in a tapestry chair in th corridor and with great, no urned to Dan, and noticed |~ — iar adeoe that his surly look vanished as he BY MARTIN May opened her handbag and | looked at her = hs 1 for her ke OK a pretty thi (Pin FOR TT LOVA PEE THis : What's the num ¢ your| said 4 it be HANCE | HAD OF SAY, : “What's the a eges Po BEING ALONE WITH yoU-AND|) | KNOW ST, iets see : “s ‘ bright LOOK AT IKOSE SAPS- JIMMY ~ MEBBE = WHO'S THE Six sixty,” sobbed Carlotta righ ns “ay WE CAN SLIP Dipak. BEST DIVE! be May almost carried her to the| # ariet 4 | Away = 7 NOOR = IAAT 4 door of 660, unlocked it, and pushed | Were her white an a SAY ? WHOEVER STAYS Pwithia'the room, he switched’ Kis Kx © Cin ONDER TH LONGEST on the lights eat down on the 4 to Carlotta ) wR GETS TO TAKE Boots, ki edge of tho bed. |and saw the Ic f jealousy and > FOR A BOAT RIDE | “Now, I'm going to stay right|suspicion that the little, woman here unt you get to sleep,” she| Mashed at her : pea said. “Aren't you to cry like} “I certainty hope she doesn't think & “What's the matter? thin about a Asif a mandrim trying to take her Dai. -away Ee her| ful,” she cried. ore or lean unted from hert’ May thought t her relief, Carlotta began t you'always wear around your neck! | hotel safe ferbert wanted to can hernelt | he “said know May looked « the i “Ob, no, I hayen't. 1 left them May shook head. “No, they're| There were ed every my: room at the Traymore, on my dre tak Don't y her t le told him t aitk tx, On “Did you hav locked In the ™ sraph of f frame ‘ Carlotta picked it 1 kianed tt e “Jan't he sweet? she asked, wip tears from her eyes with s the matter? Afrald of the A dr 1 pinkt handkerch nhe cried thought that im and I’m keep. You aren't so word in the world to Carlotta ox DUMB ~ ARE just natu y ar ¢. Hie thin, fine. | plained gloomtly: You, Jinm*? : But high up| May shrugged slim shoulders, | featured face was sullen; and yet Well, come on in, any way,’ May 4 fn the mountains overhead there| “Sho won't,” she answered. ‘There | there was a touch of Satan about|Ursed him. “I'll hold your hand 7 are big pasture ficids of tender| aren't many dishonest people In the ‘The care wore. pointed like a/9"d take care of you sweet grans that the cows love and | worl faun's ears, And there was a deep) She laughed like a happy child grow fat on. So early in the| Waterbury laughed then, in an/dimple in the chin, But the laugh died tn her throat spring the Swiss farmers drive the! annoyed sort of way May. remembered a downright old) 2% *h¢. saw the look on Herbie’ cattle up steep, ateep paths to these| You're the moat care woman | English couplet face. She realized in a flash that pasturés. They leave the cows up| I've ever known,” he enld, “I sup : he was afraid to go Into the water there all summer long, only going! poso this husband of y took well! What was the differ up to milk them twice a day and/ care of you like a n he erlook a lot of bringing the milk down to the dair. alive. And so you've never; Then she remembered a dimp! ) A man had money, And fes i fat-sided barrels that they | Icarned to take care of yourseit,| “lef the chin of that debonair and s sure that Herbie was a on thelr backs.” Neva aout dinturbing person Herbert Wa naire, at the very least, The 5 “But what have the little moun-| May thought deeply for a moment | *.2Ur> ot of his house in Brookline | tain men to do wi Widore iba ahawaradl Well, I'm no angel, mynelf!’ she noed her po Hint eae wee caa whieh wes thoug I can give hima for (To Be Cont cows are looked ttle fair. more ho ¢ y T “kA, ra . tes, called n herself to be, or the MUDD ¢ ENTER FOLKS ei said the cuc ; ycent May he thought WH 4 }antmals would kill them.” : re TH 8 a “That's right,” nodded the little thought she knew his taste! ; AN’ ZEB W. AT ANK + SOT <r : = age SENOS REIT A " : ae , - ; / a 7 $ men. “That's right “Well, prraps I don't know T FOUND TH’ HaND TiS MORNIN’ BUT KoBUDDY FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS BY BLOSSER “And being such good friends of/ to look after myself so very KERCHIEF RIGHT NEAR HAS SEEN TH’ STRANGER AT the farmer, he ‘likes to carve them! she began in a aoft voice, “but I ( = — “ jand put them on clocks and things! get along pretty well, on the whole ZEBS wood PILE TH' Horec! RET HMM DM Me THIS § 4 he makes out of wood.” Money. be me Toan't WA LOOKS BAD- THERE MUST LTBhhBasibe pretty hard work tol keep track of # PD aes _( SAKES Ative! M BE SOME CAUSE FoR IN =D MAKE SURE carry bartels on your back,” said! run thru my fi y ITS MURDERI TLL CALL DRL. THOMAS Nick “What you need is to look \ . WIEN ENGRY- FOR A hay “It is," said. the cuckoo. “So| after yo .* Herbert RS THING WAS CONSUL ! ; sometimes the farmers make places | said ate pb tess COMING TATION! to slide the barrels down with ropes. | one who Nciiveat that: tebe And sometimes the farmer Prasat Rose Sea shi maeraas ALONG their valley houses “Oh, this little bit I'm going AICELY camp out in the high ay. purted. “But 1 ha FRECKLES the cows are, for a couple of | some other money aiiteck eens i months, They have extra dairies inne T saalio Would like. te SAPERATURG there and make butter and cheese | jnyoxt."' JAKES A and everything. Swiss farmers have! ghe giggled suddenly SUDDEN a pretty hard time.” as PR SE, Rise - “Why do cuckoo clocks have pine} py AppER FANNY GAYa.- er echaaliod seelghthtersiaked Nancy FLAPPER FANNY SAYS: oe “They are iron but just look like, f TEMPERATURE cones," said the cuckoo, “Pine 104 trees cover the h h mountain: The Swits people love them, too.” “Thank you, but we'll have to be going.” said Tick Tock (To Be Continued.) (Copyright, 1925, N. B. A. Service, Inc.) YES-ITS A CASE wuuarr's | OF INCUBATION, ) TH MATTER / EXCITED FRECKLES") ONLY ANSWER IS y~ANOTHER TWENTY-FOUR | ee ag issted ge HOURS-PossIBLy TRINGS | | ; | ea | 4 MAY CHANGE! 3 | I just 1 BY PICKING UP ODD JOBS AROUND BANKER ZEB | place to sleep the rest of my life. | PERKINS’ PLACE, POP SLUPE IS ABLE To KEEP No, I'm not going to show a yellow THE GOSSIPS OF MUDD CENTER INFORMED ON j all; I spent my| for when I found out that my hus. | THE LATEST DEVELOPEMENTS IN ZEBS Love. noon for cof-| band was a crook I could have left AFFAIR~~ SHOTS HEARD AT NIGHT FOLLOWED Beier sce face Minscd is ac caer BY FINDING A HANDKERCHIEF SPOTTED wiTH who would have helped me at tha . t { j time, but I didn't for it, and #0 BLooD WITH’ Z-.R ON THE CORNER POINTS To TRAGEDY ~~ (He STRAY CAT HAS DISAPPEARED) . Of course, I didn’t knagwy when, a girl ne) at|of 16, 1 4 4 Phil Carter, that ho | ' ey becoming thoroly disiliustoned with eral O1925 OY WEA SERVICE. INCH him, I fell in Jove with another man Oleh HY one ban * Aide tues Ly ue I thought the other man)“ """9 0! woUur good Inch me something better, 1 ; eta ace Tan zi os didn’t keep {t from Phil | MOM’N POP Aitho I 5 to blame for it all,| | Phil shot my lover and went to pris | ( = = been on my own | poy YOU HAD A AMY IF You Don't WELL WH ever since. I haven't tried to go| ORINK BEFORE L , EN YOU GET , | MOM L WANT WHY CAN'T STOP BEING SO ht, T've onfly tried to make | Baie PUT YOU To BED UE OVER AND FIDGETY LLL OP TO SPANK ME WILL IELSAPE Ueaot along Seatieawelt al| GO To SLEEP- GET UP AND You PLEASE GET t, but now I am finding out that TOURE JUST SPANK YOU ME A DRINK ? you can't do it. There will come a RESTLESS ime when one muat reap what one If you're tired of me, Joe, send} me back, and I'll never bother you | again. ant to go back, Joe I can't stand this uncertainty, 1 don't | e want the pearls, Get them if grou | : can and keep them for yourself it} you want to, I only want t | . away from everybody and every. a