The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-05-31
Eoening Story
A Matter of Duty.
BY r. RAY BAKER.

Henry Gordon disappear round cor
ner of the street.
She dropped into chair and picked
up a magazine. The cover repre-
scented an insipid young woman carry
ing a parasol and a dog, looking in
The cover oppressed Alice, so she
turned to the back and absently began
reading an advertisement in colors.
Discovered The Elixir of Youth"
ran the headline of the advertisement
in bright red letters. And subtitle
below it was:
''Why Have Wrinkles? Use Sylvia
Halls Carmine Cold Cream and
Danish Signs of Age and Worry"
Then there were two pictures, one
years old, and the other of a girl of
perhaps 16. On perusing further,t
Alice discovered that the two persons
were one and the same, the first be.
ing before and the other after
using the wonderful "Carmine Cold
Cream
Alice discarded the magazine and
smiled bitterly.
Perhaps I had better invest in
some of that" she unused. mot that
I'm so old, but I'd like to Danish
worry. I must be getting a liberal
supply of wrinkles, and I'll be looking
like a hundred years old if this ordeal
doesn't end pretty soon. Why can't 1
muster up enough courage to do my
duty to Henry and rnyself?"
The ordeal in question began two
weeks ago, when Alice first saw Henry
with another woman. They had been
in a restaurant dining, and Alice had
happened along and had seen them
i thru a window. The view was from
a distance, but it had been sufficient
to- convince Alice that her rival was
young and good-looking.
| She waited for Henry to speak of
, the matter but he did not mention it.
Inasmuch as he had been engaged to
Alice for year, it would have been
| the proper thing for him to explain
himself, she thought.
| Alice was willing to let it drop, only
the very next day Jennie Quaites, who
worked with her in the shoe manu-
facturer'S office, came to her with a
story of having seen Henry with "a
very stylishly dressed young woman"
at a matinee. Soon after other friends
were kind enough to inform her OF
| episodes of a similar nature. and final
| ly Alice again saw the pair herself at
| the same restaurant, thru the same
| window.
! Then she decided she must act. She
could no longer keep Henry's ring. He
had fallen in love with another girl,
and his own sense of duty was pre-
venting him from stepping out of
Ahce's life. That was the way Alice
figured it
| Three times after Alice had made
| that decision Henry called on her, and
! three times she had tried to act as she
| had planned. But she cared so much
for him, and he treated her so much
as he always had that she could not
bring herself to the climax of their ro-
nance that she had determined upon
Finally in desperation, Alice sought
the advice of her aunt, who was
worldly wise and versed in matters OF
the heart, having had three husbands
and survived them all. She found her
4 aunt performing her toilet and making
i profuse use of some crimson, paste
like substance which she took from g
large jar.
Making myself young again." ex
planned the aunt, rubbing the oily sub
stance into her face This IS syivle
Halls Carmine Cream. which restore:
youth, banishing old age and wrinkles
You won't know me when l get MADE
up. think I'll try my hand at matrl
| mony again when have camou1lagee
the traces of Father Times scythe.
She refused to become serious Whef
Alice related her tale of woe.
There's only one of two things L
do" advised the aunt. Hand him hi
ring and forget about him (whats on
man more or less? There's plenty
them) Or get busy and beat out th1
other woman that has stolen his af
| fections This may sound terribl.
,, slangy but that's the result of tn
youth restorer getting in its work"
But 1 love him too much to lie
him go, even tho it's my duty" pro
tested Alice, land I can't bring my
: self to entering in contest for hi
: affections, especially when I've ha
them all to myself for so long"
Better think it over, then" sal
the aunt: You have my aqvlce, an n
him take the initiative, if you can't d
it yourself" ~
break off our engagement and lie
/ Henry and this other woman EMO
i happiness I'll do it next time L Sc
! him. in spite of the inclination of m
heart
And Alice took her leave, while he
aunt muttered something u
eheart, affections-rot!" and resume
lathering her face
While Alice was passing the VIII
dow, however, the aunt appeared I
have been struck with an idea, for sh
: called:
IT ':Alice, I just happened to think
= something. Perhaps this OF e
q woman is Henry's sister, OF cousin osl - 8
Z or his mother. You never can te
these days, you know. Wait till 70
n see me after this restorer gets IN Il
a fine work.
e mo, it can't be-" Alice reJolne'
# Henry has no sisters or cousins.
Lno1v that to be a fact; and his motht
. is dead"
.aToo bad, then. I thought perhaI
- ia solved the puzzle. Well, good-p!
u and don't lose any sleep and get II
q of worry wrinkles"
At the dinner hour the next az
u Alice could not keep away from II
e restaurant where her troubles OF II
,T heart had begun. She had no 1ntel
- ton of spying, but she simply mu
80 know If that affair was continuin
Evidently il was, for thru the vii
= dow Alice saw Henry and the fasl
" ionably garbed woman she had airno
; learned to hate. Apparently they M
ar dined earlier than usual, for Hen
was paying the cashier ana the la'
70 was waiting for him. She carried
Id pink parasol, and all she needed All
O. thought, to duplicate the insipld pl
II ture on the front of a magazine was