The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 23, 1925, Page 12

RE RGA RINNE a THE STORY So PAR MAY SEYMOUR, whose husba DR. JCHN SEYM killed pelt “becaus ’ v with JIM CAREW ne t Li ; home town t q She selis loaves hands wealthy wid tle fortune find and At Atle Verces, CARL sand her two WATERBURY Both men pay « cl e meets a di TTA PROLEING, da, HERBERT and DAN SPRAGUE purt to May, great of Carlotta, who with Dan for But May sets her cap for Water Dury, sure that he ts the rich hus band she has been looking for, In to “land” him, she apends ds of dollars on new clothes, els. last he propos and May ac- cepts him. She turns >» him for investment all the ahe has—including D the wale of her house. But she tm mediately regrets this when Car lotta, departing for Warns her not to trust Wate too far. When she goca t Dury to demand the retu money, he disappears. And practically penniless, sells her jew nd fur coat to buy a ticket lifornia, where sho intends to Carlotta. On the way she oft to her lawyer, DICK GREGORY GLORIA, his wife, whe hest friend. She shrinks fre ing her townspeople, who know the Timally consents to go downtown #6 lunch with Gloria. tory of her husband's sutcide. But Gloria tells her the only thing to do is to face them bravely, So she | | i} MAY SIEYMOUR FOOTLOOSE BEATRICE BURTON SEQUEL TO" Oo FLAPPER WIFE” ©NEA [We | Bho * a wh Ve | hte. { lyou I'm here 8h | wide mout A dinir ak ates! | calle | hem “N there Ble tho drop. into pecte Bhi men! | Jim," joit a No questions asked followed voloe he said awkwardly all people, to think she waa ha } lunch with Jim Carewe by appoint. THE leads her life, 11 lead mine nay this nai he began to ur his napk. an sho de 4 and deaplacd “What are you going to eat?’ he asked amiably. “The lamb creamed _ pens 6004, joomn't it May didn't anewer 1 he went on cheerfully while his eyes explored her face, “Gosh, but you're looking ft! Beams to agree you to be ry pale, May ral 1 her eyes to “Bither this table, or will not sit tm," harshly, get up and wolng tc with you 0 broke off. hers a into amiled. she sald eave And Carewe's eyes that had pools of light suddenly n Mer loorway of the 1 man with as stiff as As If her eyes t toward man was in the hg room n fac looking at he d him, he came stra n and stood by the table {r, Forgan!’ May cried, and ® was a world of welcome in her “Mr, Forgan!’ owly she lifted her hands, and man took them for an nate ped them, and plunged his o his pockets. & specta who stood Mre. Seymour Awfully glad to od to seo here see you, tho. He turned then to Gloria, “Ages aince we've met, Mrs. Grogory,” he| greeted her, smiling. Ah, Carewo, lunching here?" | ‘No, he tan't,”" May answered, be fore Jim had time to speak. “He just came over here to say ‘Hello’ to Glory and me," ¢ didn't want Ulysses Forgan, of « You'd better go back to your soup, she added, not looking at him must be atone-cold, by now." SEATTLE | kicked May's foot STAR “She's far and away the prettiest ke " t like a child/* he sald, “but she knows her way a fe well at 18 an I do at 60, Better Bh the wisdom of the world at her fingers’ endae liko all the rest of the flappers that r up around us Threatens t elope with some young whipper snapper or other, every couple of montha, And showed me how to roll a cigaret with one hand the! other day! Proud of It, too He groaned with a comical sort |of despair as he turned to May I'd Uke to have you meet Sally ® feymour,” ho maid to her She's really a sweet little thing, but she's never had a woman to look after her Mother died when she was bern, you know Under cover of the table Glorig A smile played around the corners of her mouth. | “You ought to mérry again, to give Bally @ step-mother, Mr. For gan,” she paid wickedly May felt hermit blushing, for no reason at all, so far as wh could “L should love to meet Sally,” she | sald, and just then Sally came up| fram behind her } May knew she was Forgan’s “Last person in the world I ex-| daughter the minute she glimpsed | her She had bis sparkling brown | eyes and straight, fine nose, But| ro the resemblance ended. Sally's Uttle mouth was a perfect Cupid's bow, and it was painted a bright nasturtium red. Her ch were painted, too, i her thick lashes were b with maneara Under ber felt hat little wisps .of ourty blond bair gleamed, contrasting with her str rows. aight black She was really beautiful eye in spite of her paint and powder in spite of her fussy clothes, and the heavy ringw on her little hands, From her wrist dangled gold vanity case and & cignret caso of scarlet Ai BOOTS AND HER BUDDIES A MIKE’ IF | ANT MEETING ALL OY \ FRIENDS NOW ITS BETTY ror HELLO fe SAM SESTERDMY IT WAS OU9IE bees, WHO U6ET US— Jt ele WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23 $ Gol Le " ori 7 we Were AND GET A MDWITCH AND A ¢ | COrfee | WERE OLD Times OF |, Shr g 1925 BY SWAN f CORT TRAN (g- 10K ~ BY MARTIN {NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY) | To her great relief Jim got up. | “Portrait of a Flapper," thought 7 SHE DIONT ACT fi THOUG' ANDING in the doorway of the “Thanks for your invitation to| May, aa tho girl greeted her father yaa SRC mI eter SHE CARED PARTICOLARLY Marine Room at The Olympic Hleave,” he muttered. “Guess I'll ac-| “Hello, dad," she wan saying in praeeh MATTER ER WHETHER | STAYED OR NOT. Hotel, May drew a deep breath | \cept tt." | the shrill, whining volce of a spoiled | N PoEr 3 caphird aes | WANE A MIND TO Foo, HER - uch as a swimmer takes just be-| " | He sauntered back to his lonely | child, “Tt told you T'd meet you out. | 77 "TOwWN AY ONCE> ie eer ane \SHANT he dives into icy water. She! |meal, and ate it with no great appe- sieht, Drersee nt + + nO in here!” | ereicegiym ae er = ‘elute Gloria nervously by the! , doa or fe | : @lutched Gloria nervously by the | tite es, dear, I know,” her fat N AND RETORN 7) ®im, as she looked around her at WHT eae replied’ patiently. “But I saw Mrs. | a CORA AND BILLY ARE SEEING Too much OF go | Gres wy and Mre. wo I came in to say to them.” Seymour in How do you Ulysses tehed him 2 his lips: Forgan wa’ with a curious sm ithe familiar walls and snowy tables, | “Like old times to see you again, Maizie,” he was saying Ht was filled with bitter memories smoothly, as he pulled a chair out from the table, | iis ‘plensont. room. Here she | "He knows about me and Jir . ye Sally turned then, and looked May | ad eaten many a silent meal with| She could feel his eyes upon her,| Her words were matter-of-fact | MAY sald to herself, “I suppane he) | May Mirus Ried ak paerture Soave te Dr. John in the old days—he buried | following her every move, as she|enough, but her voice shook hes Tm in “Weve Witt | shehad'the candor of a‘child | | op muino da a medical magazine, she watch-| and Gloria sit down in the middle| Even as she spoke sho saw him|D!M. - : | “Ulymes rose, “Mrs mour...| | 60 Ms fag him with bore ntful eyes.| of the room. [get up and come toward thetr table,|_ She looked up at Ulymon as he) oS ae wuld, my daugh.| pods Here, too, she had lunched doz Jim Carewe—" she began breath-| Then, ho wan bending over |*00d, hesitating, with hin bh | ter, Sally.” ie Bo gacent @ns of times with Jim Carewe, un . aw sho’ pulled off her gloves |her, She raised the corners of her|'he back of the ehatr Jim | “oh, dad. please don't introduce | dp aR a @er the coli, disapproving gaze of|and powdered her nose. lipa in answer to his tight, stretched | et e i me to people am if I were a child!” | A. BW THE her women friends. She wondered| “I know, I saw him,” Gloria an-{amile. Hé held out his hand, but she May T alt her with you for a min-| 114 111 whined when she had shaken | SORNE AND Wf Jim ever came here, now. . . . |swered. “What are you going to ould not & 1 horn in greeting, | Ute?” he aske Tm 5 hands. “Why can't you may, ‘My SEE Whar And then, suddenly, she saw him!}i¢ he comes ov ere?” | Hero wa manicwho’, Had ence. Web may | yous : Mise Forgan,’ instead of WAPPENG He was sitting al ata table in} “Why, talk to him, of course, as| wrecked her goo Ary ipo ,) My daughter, Sally’? I'm of age. ®& far corner, with his arms folded|i¢ nothing had ever happened | ‘The man who had cast her aside} He bss ” wa) you know!" Mipon it, watching her solemnly.’ tween us," May said [when he should haye married her | 4%" Ulymes laughed. All right ee 2 tt RRR —— and protected her, after Dr. John's They tell me you have a right," he promised. “Next time 1 4 x | ape uch, a man'—He |7ounE ton at your house, and eigen . 3 A ie the'’s quite’a boy said to T wey, rot € * ce R | fn 1, chow, with his é he put his hand on her s | AK.) RAVE (T- 1 SHALL SEND [ On PROFESSOR ! HERES TH' FUNNIEST THING 4 ” He's the we nild of tire 7 | ! (NAY EASe |too-tight clothes and loud necktie] "Me's the wonder chit of Ld Je her toward the next table LL MYSELe A TELEGRAM . THEN ANELEGRAM CAME UNSEALED FOR YOU ¢____/ 4 ‘ (Or NIA pthat matched his socks and. band-|l0 J tt ned down and spoke t , \ SHALL HAVE AN EXCUSE WNT SAYS You NEEDN'T RETURN FOR «) 7 i . kerchief! Bhe always brightened when any-|" want to talk to you,” he sald FOR NOT GOING A COUPLE DAS — BuT ITS Post-1 a 2 » Olive R " t B Hid baa "cha evee fancled: beraell = mentioned her marvelous baby | snortiy, “When may 17” Aiea pies 75 2 = ee er fe sen 3 * owe 0} hi: jes o her “Aft lunch?” 3 ‘a d he ye- my iy ni : i Bee ancuotends = torn # in love with this fop with his colled|{? Mer enout yl After lunch?” May raised her 7 Bvoua Ske wae ig 3 NO. THE PORCUPINE’S FLAT TIRE |hatr, and his olly voice? Why, she| sleeps all ntght without yip- | brows, questionably é hated tho very look of him, ne ping, and never bas a tummy ache.| At this Sally clapped her hands ")The first person who came to get}around to the place where the Mat] ‘Like old times to see you again, | 4's really not a bit of trouble,” “Oh, good for you, Mrs, Seymour!" ‘gasoline at the filling station was| tire was | Maisie,” he was saying amoo Ulyunes shook head, and his| she cried. “I'm having a crowd In ho pulled a chair out from the table, | eve" darkened. | “It's not when they } He dropped into It, lighted a cigaret, | a Jand fell into easy conversation with | UF children Mrs. Gregor: Gh | | problem only when they for tea, and if yo! dad away from home thin afternoo: love you forever! He crabs al parties! He's so darned goody ant keep Prickles Porcupine. Then he got the jack out from Prickies drove up in his new red| under the seat and put it under Toadster and turned off the engine.| the car and jacked it up so that hen he sot slowly out and said}the wheel didn’t touch the ground. ro babies, that © a trouble to . “They're aj} tus, | I" my he na Puhe'd please have two pints of high | The wheel with the flat tire on, I Taven't ween you for a coon's| "nash wats es you mind, young w potest. n age, Mrs. G.”, be said genially. “> r a‘ tal tol r Int si Ee What you doing?” asked i 7 Take the case of my Sail nes grim A her Vit be “High test?” cried Nick. “T vite since the last dar the Bike club feces just 18, ¥ thers da the askin sail tend awfully fast, Mister Porcu-|*°°* | ss Well, are you girls going to let me| oe “chil ‘ 0% same * always ne ¥ . Prickles looked around in sur-|yuy your lunch, Just for the sake of |™h® "at ® hil eT ities uber ce | “Phat's what I want--exact. Gill duly Son me el ee | “E know. I've seen her around Seymour?" Prickles almost shouted. ‘I bought “You sort of gave me a| day looked “No” at him, being un-|at partie Gloria (To Be Contlrued) ' My car for that very reason. I janie to speak.—Oh, why didn’t Gloria! —— whic Sl sat mie = PeL a aie Reali got tired of poking along like the Yell, it looks as tho you needea|{*!! him to go away? 8 must | ws aa, me i weight of a grandfather's clock and roe bon he st eee “eg know that this was a sure way t MUDD CENTER FOLKS letting every other person in the|jcushead: Sam” snare “What's {SUE MP all the old scandal, to wet the t ; Meuntry pass me by. I can’t walk “ goesip's tongues wagging agai ff, @py faster than a snail. So I a blow-out,” said Prickles. But Gloria was calmly scannl bought a car that could go fast, to change tires and I’m not Latah AIN'T GOT NO LETTERS Y’ WON'T Do, YOUNG eB I want fast gasoline too! Gim-| much good at it.” | “Jim,” May managed to at i eae, pm me a full tank.” . sah but 1'lt| last, "I think you'd better go back to Oat ThE A beclek FELLER ~~ THEY'S Too SR apeptciag el < y _LSAOULD SAY! SHE'S Yoo CARRY THEM HOME, / “All right! All right, Mister Por- Mais: ‘our own table, Glory and I * MANY GOAT~GETTERS ia = 2 CNG Lag \ AWFUL GOOD TD ME-SHE AN THEN WE'LL Ear / NO, 1 WONT] .” said Nick hastily. “It will] Prickles got the old tire off and|Persnickety that neve eh GO~GETTER - HANGIN’ AROUND HERE THAT BOX OF CANDY= ) SENT ME FLOWERS AN’ | | THEM UP-DONT DROP Avs BOY! T CAN Hold two pints. There you are.—!put the new one on, and ther put | With married men N ISNT BUNCE _-f ENERYTUNG WIEN 2 SERA! C MASS Ue 16 cents, please!" Jon the bolts and tightened them,| She forced a light laugh OF ABR, / | WAS IN IU HOSPITAL] ba £ \ > car Fi Prickles paid for his gasoline andjand then he put the flat tire on| Carewe Jooked at her in real su FRECKLES? -’ \ 1 eey mEsE ive ay Y Sean iatarted off. And really, once he| behind the car. Then he stopped to/ prise, Could it be that he was nc eee are ap fi c.. \ going you couldn't see him for! pick up his tools that wer longer attractive to this woman wi , ARE 6oop! J} ‘dust. on the ground. But he had once adored him?—Oh, no, that watching and one of his sharp|wasn’t possible; women never ie “I hope nothing happens to him,” aid Nancy. ‘That's what mother |*>!kes ran Into the new tire. covered from a love affair. It $ | g! It blew up like a torpedo. |the men who always tired of them. ‘Always said. If slow people once| ang 8 fact ecto they go thster, tha And there were no more tires to) #o Jim only laughed. e else. You can't stop them.” | Put on! |, Em not so terribly marric Pcie went un the vatiey ana} “What in the world shall 1 do?"|Matzie," ho said cheerfully. Brickles went Up tne vaiey wha | cried Prickles. ‘Miles away from | wife wouldn't mind my being herr iReross the bridge and along the|) (01, and two flat tires! I can't Abeasicatal a Foad at the foot of the hill and] jotcn a tire. I don't know how. 1| was just starting up a lonely tane, | Patch penne ered tore ctit| FLAPPER FANNY Soys jen bang! | doomsday." | “Oh pshaw! There goes a tire"! “On, no, you want,” said Sam. wald the porcupine gentleman. “Of| "11 help you out. Take off your) all the places to get stuck! No §a-| had tire and I'll wrap myself around Sage near—no telephone—nobody to|the wheel. Drive slowly so I don't help. 1 have to fix it myself.” | get dizzy and fall off, please.” | ™ So he stopped the little car andj And so Prickles Porcupine got{ Bot out. | home in time for lunch after all! @] Then he took the spare tire off] (To Be Continued.) | Pthe back of the car and rolled St’ (copyright, 1925, N. B. A. Barvice, Ine.) @ — DEAR ME! A WHOLE Box, OF CANDY!! DONT EA THEM ALL AT AICE BIG ONG WRAPPED IA) TIN Foie TA, AO, WE WON'T; AOM= WE'LL EAT THEM ONE BY } ~ x] " = | ives little Jack said to him the other GONNA Cee. : = night: TUN js " ‘i | ‘Daddy, what is the matter with r Zo , |you? You don’t seem like you at LETTER FROM LESLIE PRES) 4) COTT TO THE LITTLE MAR When his father asked him what QUISE, CARE OF THE | he meant by that, the child said: SECRET DRAWER | “{ don’t see me in your eyes when | CALEB SYKES PUT A “HELP WANTED” ® Ihave told you before, Little Mar-/7 took at you, and I don’t hear mo| Hriuise, how I often hope that by some! in your voice when you talk to me | SIGN IN #IS STORE WINDOW AND Gor. Qeort of alchemy you really do know; Ay said to this w Daddy's | what {s in the letters I send you Tately I have been thinking about | you a good deal, and I have almost} tired, sonny,” but he seemed more preoccupied than ever. This week he has not been home IMMEDIATE RESULTS FROM A YOUNG STRANGER WHO WAS PASSING BY ~.. ba e to the conclusion that the an-| one evening, telling me that things wpals of my life, 4 ave put them | were kind of in a mix up at the office, Sflown for you, are not basicly much/ something he said yesterday mak geitferent from you! think he has had somo losses. Of course I kno © 1928 RY WEA SERVICE. INC | me . you ey He tells me nothing of any import-| he minister always atarts+a © 1925 BY NEA SERVICE, INC. Miundreds of years ago, at one of the| ance about hia work, ever, and I do gthy argument, | caeaial Post gorgeous courts that the world! not ask. One of the things Mother | — has ever known, and I am just the} jmpre: ’ MOM’N POP Gwite of an American business man, TNevertheiess, I am quite sure t ed upon both Alice and my- self was that we must never, after we were married, allow ourselves to @iuman naturo has not changed very uch since the time you left that ent of a letter in the secret ‘Wrawer—comedy and tragedy, Joy and Tprief, love and hate, birth and death s. 6 still a part of the luggage that Miumanity is carrying about this old earth. * I wonder, dear little Marquise, if you found in your kingly lover When The was away from you, and when he Twas with you, was two totally differ- mt persons, When Jack jx away rom me, I surround him with all the Mmagined ideality that I had for him Wetore we were married. When he urns, we have a few weeks of Upreat happiness, and then, alas, he tired—at least he seems to Ww tired—of me and my life, ) Yyer since Syd and Melvilie Sar- Rory were over here, Jack has seemed “to be much preoceupled with his work. He hardly seems to know that “1 am about when he comes home, * 4 jbo curious concerning any details of our husband's business affairs about which he did not care to inform us. “Ono of the things, Leslie," std my dear mother, “that makes a man | grow tired of his wife, is to be always | nagged about what goes on at his | office. A man wants to forget about his business when he comes home. “Men are queer creatures, my dear | child. They make up their minds about things, and then the whole world must conform, A man makes up his mind that his home must be a | haven of rest, and oftentimes that Js | why he goes to some other woman | to talk about things that worry him, | He says he does not want to worry his wife about them, but don't. you believe it. He has come home to rest, and doesn’t want to worry himself.” (Copyright, 1925, N. M.A, Bervios, Ine.) TOMORROW: Letter from Leslie Prescott to the Little Marquise, care of the Secret Drawer—Continued, BY CRACKEY ~ THIS TYTE TROUBLE 19 GETTING SERIOUS - HE HAS EVERY CHANCE OF RECOVERING HEAVY DAMAGES - L GUESS ID BETTER SEE ATTORNEY REYANT ABOUT THIS,- PERHAPS HE'LL GIVE ME SOME HOPE ~ L LET MY TEMPER GET AWAY WITH ME AND L THREW THE NOY AUTOMOBILE AT HIM~!IT STRUCK HIM ON THE HEAD ANO LAYED HIM. ObT YOUR CASE (3 VERY SERIOUS = THE LEAST HE COULD Do WOULD BE TO SUE YOU For DAMAGES - \F HE DOES IT MAY COST You A LARGE SUM OF MONEY po) DID YoU SAY THAT WAS THE. LEAST HE COULD Dor YES-AND ON THE GHER HAND HE MIGHT CHARGE YOU WITH ASSAULT TO DO GREAT BODILY INJURY WHICH WOULD MEAN A PRISON TERM AND SHOULD HIS INJURY PROVE FATAL YOU WOULD BE CONVICTED OF MANSLAUGHTER = THAT WOULD MEAN A TERM OF YEARS IN THE PENITENTIARY