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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-01-19
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 A fiend seems determined to ex- terminate the family of Richard Lorne, and two persons are already dead when Barry Odell, a detective, begins an investigation. He, with a companion, Miller, is assaulted by thugs employed by Farley Drew and carried to an old boathouse, from which they escape, and Odell returns to the LOrne home where he hears of an interesting conversation be- son.
 Even as the questions thronged his brain, casual remark of Taylor's re- cured to him with startling signif1- cance- "I never saw so many books in my life lot of them are on medical subjects
 It was natural that a chronic in- valid should be interested in his con- dition, perhaps to a morbid extent, and would collect all the data he could find bearing on his case; but what if Rannie had gone further in his study of medicine? If his library contained any volumes on toxicology it would open up a new field of con- lecture.
 OdelI dismissed the matter from his thoughts for the time being and started upstairs. He would have liked to investigate it at once; but Richard Lorne had summoned him in the first place, and he had not yet had an opportunity of hearing his version of the mystery.
 At the top of the stairs, however, he all but collided with Smith, who with Ginger on lip beckoned him into on alcove formed by the bay window over the entrance door.
 Something's up, sergeant" he whispered hurriedly. Taylor told me you were here. and I was just coming down to find you.'
 'The chief told me about Miss Chalmers attempt to elude you yes terday"-Odell was beginning, but the operative cut him short.
 'T mean today, now! She never left her room yesterday after that scene with her aunt whn she got home, an6
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No living room, however beautiful Iy furnished, is above accepting an addition. Perhaps something entire ly novel may be added unto it, or maybe an old trusty may be at last replaced after years of service. AL most any living room that has not ono already will joyfully preen itself over a console table. These come ;.~ many types-long, straight and narrow; semi-circular, the fiat side to bc placed against the wall; one of those Colonial card tables with the drop leaf, that can be raised against the wall or not, as preferred; in fact any kind of table that has one fiat side for pushing against the wall And the wood may be of any kind mahogany, walnut, lacquered or painted and decorated.
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IS there one iedSL Cc1lIuCh dc- nominator" in friendship?
 By BEATRICE FAIRFAX An Authority on all Problems of
 Girls and Questions of Love
 and Romance.
 '"Treachery is the one unforgivab1e thing" announced Margot with the flaming, flashing emphasis she puts into everything. "I can forgive any, thing but treachery. And when a supposed friend hurts me or neglects me or fails in sympathy and under standing, or lets me agonize through a dark hour alone, it does not mat ter. What does hurt, and what 1 won't put up with, is faithlessness. 9
 srn forgive anything but lack of understanding" urged Cecile- ''F'olks who don't take the trouble to find out what their friends are real ly like cause most of the unhappi- selfish to fail in understanding. There can't be sympathy or kindness or tenderness or gentieness when there 8 no real understanding g- there's not even the clear background that comes from speaking the same language well. new," interrupted Michael, who had been listening patiently to his wife and sister, "aren't you two and both calling it by lot of fancy names? Strikes me you can get along fine with only one who's honest, and that there's no making go of friend ship or anything else with the man or woman who isn't honest How about t?'' He looked straight al. me with a twinkle of challenge in his gray eyes. But before I could reply Margot and Cecile came clamorously back into the fray.
 'Treachery's much worse than dis honesty" insisted Margot, while Ce- cne protested.
 '1No one who took the pains to un- derBtand a friend would deceive him. '' 'How about it?" repeated Michael again, insistently.
 Thus challenged, mounted my pet hobby and ga1loped away. believe firmly that there's no hu- man relationship of any permanent value possible without honesty as a basis.
 I believe that no one who is dis
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An my If a lot of them are this morning she weaL down to break fast with a face like a thunderc1oud. I was sitting in the hall outside the dining room door reading my paper and waiting to see what her next move would be when that 4lousematd, Jane, came running up the back stairs.
 she was all excited and smiling, but when she saw me she changed like a shot; gave me a cool little nod, and then got a duster out of the hall closet and began fussing around and hum ming as if there was nothing on her mind but her hair; yet I noticed that she didn't get very far from the dining room door, and she kept her eyes on it, too.
 Miss Meade and the two young ladies and the hunchbacked boy were the only ones who had come down to
 breakfast; and when they finished and came out I watched Jane.
 .aShe turned when she heard their chairs moved back and went up the back stairs: and I walked to the front < of the hall and stood in the library
 door behind the curtain, where $ could see up the main staircase. Miss Cissie left the dining room first and started for her room; and there was Jane waiting for her in the upper hall. They stood talking together for a minute; and I saw Miss Cissie jump as if she'd been shot and grab Jane by the arm and drag her off down the hall.
 Miss Meade and her younger niece stayed in the dining room talking ito Peters but before I had a chance to get upstairs Rannie Chalmers came out and started up ahead of me, so l ! went down the hall to the back
 stairs.
 .sWhen I reached the second floor he was just entering his room, talk ing to Gerda; and Miss Cissie and r.. n nie,s door was open and waited N here, where we are standing now, un- til Gerda came out; and then he fol lowed her and went down stairs
 door and listened. Jane vbls saying
 sOh. miss, it's much too good for me- f and Miss Cissie said, Nonsense
 can't wear it amy more now that I am q in mourning, and I appreciat whaI you've done for me. I'll give you eveu SO many pretty things if you vii
 bring me any other messages tha: N may come that way, Jane, and never N tell anybody.
 {& sergeant, though it was enough tt " sfow me that Jane had put some E thing over on me, as the way she sait |# sf. you never heard such a chang Fin any ones tone in your life! He voice was low but shaking with eX
 c.ftenn ent and happiness, too Yol could tell. I moved away just il time ito see Jane come out and whisl no to her own room with a pink even M ing dress over her arm.''
 ssHumph!" Odell jaculated. "Wher
 x the young lady now?"
 ~Sti11 in her room."
 ssWell, go outside and ask B1ak
 md Shaw-they're on the day watcI N If they, saw Jane talking to any on T n6 either entrance to the house. the
 come back and don't let Miss Cissi
 fD1rt of your sight if she leaves he room. If you should go out while
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-01-19
When A Girl Marries
By ANN LISLE

Have you-signed the Iease?" asked
 Here it is Want to have a look? Two years. with the privilege of five"
 I ran my eyes over the long. double leafed document Jim presented. but I didn't get much beyond che figures.
 But. Jim-how can you pay such an enormous rent? Why. we've lived on Hess a month than you're-
 Furiously Jim snatched the lease from me. folded ft and returmed 1t to his wallet He didn't actually break in on what was saying. but didn't dare go on. After a moment. during which he seemed to be struggling for seif-control. he spoke:
 NOW listen to me, Anne, and abide by what I'm saying. Once for all I ing to the top I'm playing a danger ous game, playing with big men, But I'm going to win-So be one of them. They aren't pikersI don't dare to be- Put up a front and you got a chance to build one, that's ehe way this game Is played" -a
 You mean we're going into debt That we're going to live beyond our ..'T mean I'm going to figure out what my means will be a yearsfrom now and live up to 'em- What do you say to that-you little miserz" Even the softening '1intIe" didn't | make me obvious to the fact tha. Jim intended to insult me. But passed it over. for felt I was fight ing for our very e1iStenceL Jim, I know what it is to be all | ways in debt When was child my father gambled. you know. Red velvet hotel suits-paraIiea4to this, one month Sums the next" 1 Your faith in me is touching, Anne. suppose you think the par allel is obvious
 Jim's voice was like a whfp-lash. but before I could reply rhere came | three signaling taps on tho bell, and Jim-with clearing brow and warn ing whisper to me-opened the door to admit a giant of a man. | After a word of greeting he pre- sented Mir Crosby and my hand was | engulted in a sturdy paw rha< matched the big brown-and-tan man 1 with net-worked skin and peerinf- eyes. who appraised me and the place quickly in a hearty: l Bumper cropi"
 MT. Crosby and I were shown around the room together He ap- proved As we were leaving he said | to Jim:
 Who's going to do your decorat- ing?"
 Jim hesitahed a moment; then he | said. in a tone that conveyed his in tention all along to employ a deco | rator:
 "oh. my friend Tom Mason. of | course"
 Not even the new extravaSance | startled me so much as the new phase of intimacy that I saw approaching
 (To Be Continucd.)
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back up my suspicious until the DOT trait fel1.''
 Some more facts are in my pos session now, MT. Lorne, which sub stantiate your suspicious" Odell ob- served gravely. "I have proof that that razor was not drawn across your stepson's throat by his own hand. and strong circumstantial evidence, in which the specialists and your fam lily physician concur, that Mrs. Lorne's death was deliberately brought about The attempts upon your life and that of your other stepson were self
 evident, of course.''
 Proof" Richard Lorne repeated,
 lifting his clenched hand over his head only to let it fall impotently
 once. more: 'Christine! My poor to lie here like this! I can't make a move to find the - f1end
 and get my hands about his throat! Sergeant. I'll give you anything in
 the world, all that I've got. if you'N find him for me and then let me have | my way with him.
 Its my business to find him, sir;
 that's what I'm here for" odell re- piled reassuringly. You're not go- 1 ing to be useless in this investiga- tion by any means simply because | you are ill; you might be able to helr
 me more than anybody. MT. Lorne, you may not be conscious of it your | self, but there must have been some | thing more than what we will call 8 psychic influence which made your conviction of foul play so strong. | Think! Try to remember when the | first misgivings came to you and what l caused them. No matter how trivial | it may seem to you. I want to hear l it'' 'It was something my poor wife 1 said in her delirium, as thought
 at the time. Later. after her death. | it kept recurring to my mind. and l I began to wonder whether she had
 actually been de1frious after all when | she spoke.' For a moment L.orne | turned his head away in an obvious effort to control his emotion. ''It
 was just at dawn on the day before
 her death, and she had asked for me
 still on duty. and my sister-in-law
 worn out. was asleep on the couch
 at the other side of the room.
 "I sat down beside the bed and lift. 1 ed my wife's hand. holding it close
 She smiled faintly at me; then hel eyes gittering with fever followed the Risby woman around the room I had never liked that nurse; she was off1cious. and she seemed unwill. | ing at any time to leave me alone
 with my wife. Now she kept potter l ing about. moving bottles and rat ting the cracked ice until thought Il I should shout. Then she picked UT
 a blanket and went over to the couch Il 10 place 1t about Efie-Miss Meade and the moment her back was turned
 my wife's hand frightened on mine Dick she whispered, send her away
 She's killing me- I tried to sooths her. thinking, of course, that she wa,
 off her head; but she c1awed at my
 hand and the most piteous expres } sion came over her poor face. To Be Continued.
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ssAFTER ALL, MEN ARE INFANTS, '' ASSERTS FEMINIST JANE BURR

find Irish lace blousesand real coif- lures in the village. Much less in Chelsea. But Miss Burr is a great success and can afford to be as un- conventional as she p1eases with long hair and other ornaments considered very radical in that vicinity.
 Absurd" she said terse1y. ''The weIl-organized home has no head It should be a departmental affair.
 "I don't believe in the home-but that is beside the point.
 Believes in Two Homes.
 "I do believe in two homes, one for the husband and one for the wife. That's what is the matter with mar riage-the mutual home. I know; I've been married twice.
 HOne of the two in a mutual home will always try to get the upper hand. sThe strong one will become stronger, and the weak one will become weaker.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-01-19

Written by IMAGERY REX for the
 International News Service.
 New Tork-Shou1d a man be mas ter in his own home?
 Yea, verify, according to the Rev. A. c. Dixon, the Buffalo evangelist, in reproving the sins of Syracuse.
 Master-yes, but not in his home is the opinion of Miss Jane Burr, American author and feminist, who kcproves with her pen the sins of modern society and it's customs.
 'The woman who is unwilling that man should be at the head of the ,ousehold should not get married. avs Dr. Dixon ''The Bible teaches hat the husband is the head of the ousehoid."
 Across her sunlft desk Miss Burr .smiled at me as she read the clergy mans dictum- Her appearance was disconcerting. You don't expect to
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which proves that to many women matrtmony is simply an easier way of earning living than working in an office, for instance.
 eff a couple must live together. then let the domesticity be depart mental. Let a man have charge of what occurs outside the home and a woman take charge of the purely do- mestic affairs.
 ..In some things I would be willing to let a man be the head. As for ex- ample. man could take care or such enterprises as crossing the street helping woman through crowds and
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with two homes the woman goes on with her life as she did before marriage. Then there is no such dis cussfon about who is head of the house.
 The problem of the home would be solved if all women could work. If they could all be protected and cared for during the time their children are every child.
 ''I have heard many a girl in an office say: There's no way out of here except through the church door,
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-01-19

Of course, above the console table you want a mirror, and in these there is no end of choice, small or large, plain or ornate, quaint or dis tinguished, wood or gilt framed; and even sometimes you can use a picture frame you have, substituting mir TOT for the picture.
 Then, in the matter of lighting. your living room has been sadly ne. glected, waiting for that moment that never comes, when everything is propitious, to buy the new lamps or wall lights. When is there bettef time? Lamps with candliestick or bowl bases and silk or parchment shades may be bought for large, or small sums, and these are always In good taste. The shades should never
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be too ornate and fussy. New eiec' tric wall scones may be gotten to re- place those that offend the eye. or wall sconces for candles are charm inEly decorative as we'll as useful for the room that has no set-an nx- lures.
 The black velveteen table runner. trimmed with a band of silver cloth and embroidered in wool; the scarlet and gold leather book. hand tooleds the small lacquered box for cigar cites shaped auaintly like a trunk: the book ends of polychromed wood the foot rest, the comfortable cush' ions-any one of these given to the living room by the family will make the room welcome them with an es' pecial joy.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-01-19

The new schedule recently mapped out by the Connecticut Company was put into effect Sunday. and is now working out satisfactorily.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-01-19

Is there one least common de- nominator" in friendship?
 By BEATRICE FAIRFAX An Authority on all Problems o1
 Girls and Questions of Love
The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1921-05-19

DRETTY midsummer dresses of sheer
L fabrics have made their appear
apce, to be received with even more
than the usual joyous acclaim that
always awaits them. Women find their
familiar old friends In these fabrics,
reappearing each year with new
charms added to those we have known
so long, and made up in new and en-
ticing ways in which combinations of
two materials play a conspicuous part
this season. Crisp and dainty organdy
has great role In midsummer styles
and associates itself with dotted
swiss. wolfe, batiste and goods Of like
character.
Plain dark blue organdie, made up
with dotted swiss, Is an old favorite
in combinations which make Its ap-
pearance with the return of summer.
1t will be among those present In the
pageant of midsummer frocks. Fine
white batiste, covered with small
tucks. makes a deep yoke, collar and
cuffs for a cherry-red dotted swiss and
a bodice with elbow sleeves for a
frock with petaled tunic skirt Of en-
broidered wolfe or printed organdie.
The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1921-05-19
McDONOGH NO. 5.

The First Grade number on the
program for the May Festival on May
goth will be circus, with the fol-
lowing children participating:
Circus Riders - Emelda Burmas-
ter, Catherine North, Helen Schin-
dler. Gladys Sadie Sims, Althea.
Treadway, Helen Parker, Myrtle
Parker, Viola Lirrette, Beryl Lands,
Gradell Diket, Vera Cook, Hilda
Baugon, Caater Hotard, Dorothy Dali
gle, Romola Heider, Thomasita Har-
vey, Helen Willis, Rose Robson.
Clowns-George Holman, Francis
Brias, Roy Lands, Merrill Diket,
Harry Levy, Thomas Bennecke, Wal
ter House, John Edward Ridge, Fred
Bennecke, George Kobolt, Peter
Brechtel. Johnny Erickson.
Monkeys-James Kennair. Henry
Kennair, Vernon Sutherland, Fred
Richardson, Hillary Kline, Anthony
Lanier, John Cangemi, Junior Nc
Neeley, Thomas Fears, John Wool
verton, Clayton Cosse, Wilson Ken.
needy.
Hawaiian Dancers - Erminie Abb
bolt, 1rma Lee Moll, Camille Palisf,
Ruth Treadway, Florence Wingarter,
Lille Durkes, Rose Caimi, Virginia
Harvey, Antoinette Oratallano, Mil
dred Woodcock, Louise Essinger,
Vera Hum.
Incians-Thomas Cotton, Corne-
lius kerstens, Louis Matulich, Irwin
Pollock.
Ringmaster-Walter Wright.
Everything is in readiness for the
May Festival on Friday. There will
be a program by the children at 7:3o
and dancing at 9. A>delightful time
Is promised all who attend.
The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1921-05-19
BELLEvILLE SCHOOL NOTES

In the last half hour of school day
Tuesday. May 10th, parents and pa
irons visited Belleville school to see
danced the minuet which had formed
so pleasant number of the pageant
OF Apri 1890. The children re-
peated gracefully their precious
success. Margaret Hymel introduced
the dance prettily by her recitation.
when Grandma Danced the Minuet."
and Erna Stalcup closed the program
by telling humorous story.
The parents and patrons there as
sembled considered the time oppor.
tune to send an expression of their
views on the desirability of giving
our public schools the seven mills
voted to them by the people Of our
city last November; also, to consider
ways and means of giving to the
children of our district warm
lunches. The group went into tenn
porary organization with Mrs .O'Don-
nell in the chair, and sent kilograms
and appointed a committee to take
The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1921-05-19
CHARTER.
CHARTER OF CLERMONT HARBOR
LAND CO., INC.

United States of America. State of Lou
isiana, Parish of Orleans, City of New Or
leans. Be it known, That on this 18th
day of March, in the year one thousand
nine hundred and twehty-one before me.
Charles Rosen, notary public, in and for
the Parish of Orleans, State of Louis
lana, duly commissioned and qualified, and
therein residing; and in the presence OF
the witnesses, herein named and sub
scribed; personally came and appeared the
several persons herein subscribed, all of
the age Of majority, who declared that
they desired to avail themselves of the laws
vided, and that they do hereby constitute
themselves, their associates and success
sors a corporation under the articles and
stipulations following which they hereby
adopt as their charter, tO-wit:
ARTICLE 1.-The name and title of
this corporation shall be Clermont Harbor
Land Co., Inc, and by its corporate name
the said corporation shall have and en-
granted by law to corporations, including
the power to have and enjoy succession
for the full term and period of ninety nine
(99) years from the date hereof; to con-
tract sue and be sued to make and use
a corporate Zeal and the same to break or
alter at pleasure; to hold, receive, pur-
chase, lease, sell and convey, as well as
mortgage, hApothecate and pledge, under
its corporate name, any property real, per-
sOnal and mixed, to name and appoint
such managers, officers. and agents and
employees. as the interest and convenience
of said corporation may require; to make
and establish such bylaws, rules for the
management and regulations of the af-
fairs of said corporation as may be deemed
necessary or proper, and the same to alter
or change at pleasure.
ARTICLE 1.-The d0micile Of the said
corporation shall be at New Orleans, in
the Parish of Orleans, State of Louisiana
and all citation and other legal process
shall be served on its president, and in
case of his absence or disability, on its
secretary treasurer, and service of process
may generally be made In the manner pro-
vided by law.
ARTICLE UI.-Tne objects and pur-
poses for which the corporation is or
ganized, and the nature of the business
to be carried on by 1t are hereby declared
to be:
To hold, own. purchase, or otherwise ac-
quire and to sell or otherwise dispose Of
real estate in this city and state, and in
the State Of Mississippi, or elsewhere; to
build houses or other buildings thereon,
and to sell, lease, or otherwise dispose of
the same; to develop the said property,
and to make such Improvements thereon
as may be deemed advisable; to operate
hotels or other property in connection
with said property SO acquired, and gen.
orally to do all things in connection with
the handling, development, and disposal
of the real estate and other property by 1t
so acquired; and to do any and all things
necessary in connection with and inciden-
tai to the foregoing objects and purposes.
ARTICLE IV.-The authorized capital
The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1921-05-19
Smoke a. q Lightning Rod.

II would seem that a building 1000
feet above the sea Level should DO
protected by lightning rods, but the
astronomical observatory at Mount
Etna has not, and does not, need such
protection. The observatory Is near
the summit Of the volcano, and the
stream Of vapor constantly rising from
the crater acts as a natural conductor,
draining the electricity out Of the
clouds, so that lightning is seldom seen
there.
The herald. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1905-1953, 1921-05-19
SHOWER A BIG SUCCESS.

A shower given by Mrs. F. Klien-
kemper and Mrs. d. Mclean, for the
St. Margaret's booth at the Holy
Name of Mary Church Fair June s-5
was a big success.
Mrs. Klienkemper rendered sew
eral vocal selections, also many in
strumental selections. Refreshments
were served.
The ladies present were. Mesdames
H. NJ. Vallette, r. F. Whitmore Mel
son, j. P. Nolan, A. Gaiennie, Ella
Mills, A. Guillot. Misses Susie Muir
ply. l.. Mcdonald, A. Voegtlin, Adele
and Geraldine Guillot.