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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-06-29
CORNS AND BUNIONS

Yesterday I gave you a little Of my Balkan experiences with a soft corn. I agree that it is not always tight shoes that cause corns for I have ai- ways worn shoes that are comfortable enough so that breaking in shoes is not in my experiences.
 My foot measures for a six and I always get a six and a one-half, c width, and sometimes I have to fight for it if I permit the shoe clerk to measure my foot. So my habit now is to go to shoe store. ask if they have a 6 +, width. in the model I desire and never have any trouble breaking in shoes.
 It has always seemed to me that of all the foolish things, that of getting shoes that hurt your feet Is the most foolish. It is so patent that one has shoes that are too small and that hurt, and how silly it looks.
 Shoes that are comfortable enough when you first wear them, keep their shape much better and do not Look so large as shoes that have to be stretched to conform to the feet.
 Get a model that has the straight inner line so that your large toe does not have to be distorted and, pointed outward. Now, praise be to Allah, you can get good looking models in the shoes that do not distort the feet and, furthermore, the round toe and a straight inner lined shoe is fashion able. Hurrayt
 hope some time that shoes that deform the feet will not be made any more. We have laws that curb our personal liberties in other ways in things that are harmful. why not in the matter of shoes? We are domi- mated too much in a matter of style in everything by the great god Com merce. The idea that styles are mat ters of women's whims is a joke.
 I was going to tell you more about corns. In an old book written in ISIS, on the art of preserving the feet, there is a section devoted to '"The Painful Sensations Arising from Cuti- cular Excresences." Cuticular Excre- sencesi Don't talk about your corns any more. Let's be elegant, and talk about our cuticular excresences.
 This author goes on to say that the fashion of considering certain ai1- ments as beneath the dignity of sci ence is pernicious and the result has been that the neglected extremeties of the system have been consigned to ig- norant quacks or to absurd and vul- gar prejudices. If trifles make up the sum of human bliss they often make the sum of human misery" Don't you love that?
 So we have established that cuticu- lar excresences are worthy of our
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CHAPTER 59S

CHAPTER 59S Copyright, 1920 King Features Syndi-
 cate, Inc.
 When MT. Rockhi1 gave men carte blanche to "go an talking" I knew that he had invited me to convince him-if I could. I realized that this was my big chance to make good for the business. Tony was going to se- cure to float the businesS-now it was me the loan which would enable me my job to assure myself of a business to float" While I was getting ready to marshal my facts, MT. RockhiIl spoke again:
 Do you know your business as well as you talk it?"
 Better, hope" I smiled back. as suming the easy air of one sure of vic tory, 'Tf I don't now. will shortly. for I love this advertising and public ity game and I'm going to study it from every angle"
 "Goodi But don't take on too many clients. If you can put us on the map so folks right here in the home territory will ask for our stockings as naturally as brides and grooms gravitate to Niagara Falls, we'll have an interesting proposition to make to you-''
 They say that nothing succeeds like success. So I, gaining courage, yea tured step further than I had plan ned.
 why not make <sthe interesting proposition now 9" I asked. -.Give me a decent appropriation and carte blanche and let me edit your, copy and handle it for one month as I see 1t. I've the inside track at Haldaness
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When 4 Girl Marries
By ANN LISLE

and the Star. We might try those two media for one month. Though, of course, a magazine can't produce measurable results in a single issues advertising"
 "If you had a year I suppose you'd produce-m easurable results drawl- ed MT. Rockhill tauntingly
 "I can do it in six weeks with a newspaper campaign = and in six months in the magazines
 I put all the assurance I could into my tone. I forced myself to think with authority. And I ignored the sarcasm which hadn't escaped me.
 ':Al right" How would a year go?"
 MT. RockhiIl fairly snapped it, as if he were afraid to add amid bility to the business concession he was mak- ing.
 -I want to help put your hosiery business and your lingerie on a basis here in America comparable to your South American trade" I replied. "So far you stand not as home-traders but porters of lingerie, don't you?''
 You're well informed, aren't you?''
 MT. RockhiIrs voice craekied I wondered if he weren't hanging onto this grim manner from a youthful fear Of admitting too much knowI- edge to someone else
 It's my business to know your bus mess if Pm going to help you enlarge it.'' I said refraining from snapping up his offer of years rr1a1 with the pan1ng eagerness felt
 .1ts evident enough you've been
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The Morning After By Octavus Roy Cohen.
 of Nothing But Truth, Etc.

He heard a throaty laugh.
 "Yes. sir. How's the blushing bride groom this norning?"
 "BEdegroomI Honest. How, is it on the level"
 "surest thing you know. I tried to stop you, but
 Go outside and get a taxi and hustle uR here. You got to get me out of this.''
 I'm busy"
 "Confound busy. You come up here-and be quick about it. When Uncle Charley hears this-and Vir- ginia-Oh, Lordi''
 That's what told you last night. But you wouldn't listen to reason"
 'I see I wouldn't. Come on up. And say: who's this Frederick Strat- ford gink?"
 ''The other witness
 Bring him along with you"
 Buck turned slowly from the tele- phone. He stared long and sadly at the woman. "Marriedi To you!"
 She smiled sweetly.
 He fIounced into the white-tiled bathroom. Ten minutes later Buck, clad in a business suit was back in the room. His head was still aching terrifically, but he was considerably sobered and capable of clear think ing.
 Wont Uncle Charley be happy when he hears it?" he exclaimed. "Oh Won't he be delighted! And Virginiai"
 Who are Uncle Charley and vir- ginia %
 Uncle Charley is worth enough money to ride in fliver without caus- ing comment. Virginia is the girl I am-was-engaged to and his ward She was coming into her fortune when she married me. and he was going to make us his joint heirs"
 Cant he sympathize?"
 Him? know him. He's as straight-laced as a new corset. There is his picture on the dresser there; take a look at it for yourself"
 Thelma crossed the room, picked mp a silver-framed picture of Uncle Charley, stared at 1t with widening eyes for a minute and then let her jaw droop.
 This is your Uncle Charley?"
 ''Yes-'
 ''Gawan!" laughed until the walls of the room seemed to shake. Buck stood it as long as his nerves would allow, then he demanded:
 Whats the joke? Let me in on it'
 Listen here, Bucky-boy. if this Is your Uncle Charley I can tell you he won't raise so much fuss as you ex- pect. Now ain't that the. richest ever? Just the richest? Think of him-oh, good night
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CHAPTER HI.

Buck Mccartney, his head still throbbing listened to the damning testimony of Howard Manning.
 'Of course, you remember meeting me at the Blackfriar's- You dragged me to Devano's and interspersed every bite with drink. Later in the night we got to Giovanni's.
 Ut was in Giovannfs that you met Thelma and Mir. Stratford and for a long time you amused yourself com pairing her to the Venus de MAdici and Juno. When Stratford bowed to me you insisted that nothing on earth would do but to meet the ravishing creature
 Don't you remember the introduc- ton ?"
 T don't remember a contounded
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CHAPTER II. No "aU nuf


 Buck crossed the room swiftly, and gazed at the picture of his uncle.
 Seems to amuse you ?'
 "Aruuse me? I should say it does"
 'If you don't know him why did you laugh so. and why did you say that he wouldn't raise any thupder when he discovered what an ass I've made of myself?''
 That" was the serene answer, "is very much my own business, and if you know what's good for you, hubby dear, you'll leave nunky to me. And now to business. There's a Swedish person in the kitchen laboring over breakfast. Shall we eat it now?"
 Don't care if I never see break fast"
 "I'll tell Swedie tc get busy and dish up the eats"
 She started for the door. Hello, who's this? ?''
 The door swung back to admit a dapper little man. At sight of the woman, he bowed and made as though to exit.
 Excuse me, sir; excuse me. I did not know sir"
 Don't be another damned fool. Perkins," choked Buck.
 The apartment beu rang impera- lively and Perekins, the butler hast ened to the door to admit Howard Manning and a stranger. He knew Howard Manning of old.
 The other man surprised him. Man ning's companion was a parsonage rather than a person. He was six feet and. like Othello. dark. swartfly and bearded. He was dressed in a Prince Albert and a ruffly shirt of white, trimmed with a thin greenish stripe. The trousers were light gray. Spats were white and the shoes were very dusty and square toed.
 His hair was long, and silky and wavy and somewhat oily. The head gear was of the shiny stovepipe va riety.
 Howard rose to his feet as Buck and his wife entered. The stranger was already standing.
 Howard grinned broadly as the cou- pie entered the room.
 Just finishing the little wedding breakfast. eh? And how's the bride and groom getting along?"
 Fine, thank you" Buck bowed sar- castically. And this gentIeman-'' he paused.
 Frederick Stratford. suh The voluminous basso boomed. Fred eric Stratford. one time with Edwin Booth. It was my first role, suh; a modest role. but one which I was content to accept for the attrition af- forded."
 Hey, there-whoa" broke in How ard quickly Lets talk business. I haven't much time. Buck, so kindly ask me few questions"
 II will. Let's all be seated. In the first place. How. has this lady here got me in her clutches absolute ly legally. finally. and forevep?''
 I'm sorry, Buck" came Howard s answer. But I'm afraid it's SO. You've got your foot in it good and proper There's no way out but the courts"
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S. E.:-Your perspiring hands like Iy come from nervousness about mak- ing a good impression when meeting people, or straining to strike the right chords when playing the piano. After practising at the piano always do som ething to counteract this strain, such as an outdoor game that will make you breathe deeply and set the blood circulating fully. Strong salt water makes good astringent for ex- cessive active pores.
 Mrs. Cyp B.:-I shall be glad to mail you the henna formula if you send me your address on a stamped envelope. The sagging facial muscles should be built up so they will be firm, although an astringent occasionally will help much as 1t keeps the skin from stretching. When the muscles have this tendency to sag an astring- ent treatment once each week will do much to counteract it.
 Woried:-I shall be glad to send you the formulas for the creams and also for an astringent, if you forward a stamped, addressed envelope for mailing them.
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thing First time I ever saw this woman-to my knowled ge-was an hour ago. The important point is that you were married shortly after midnight. I almost fought to keep you from it. But what could I do when you insisted? You were free, white, and twenty-one - and then l some I thought you were doing an asinine thing and told you so a thou sand times. But you said you'd mar ry her anyway, and 1 thought might as we'll trot along and help you make arrangement
 Thanks" sadly. You certainly got me signed. sealed and delivered before you finished. Now you've got to help me get out of it. You know Uncle Charley. don't you?' Yes"
 ''welI, I have as much chance of getting any of his surplus cash as I've of going to heaven in a flivver. I'll have to hunt job pronto. Maybe I might be worth seven a week. My wife and l will investigate the tenement system of this great and glorious city; but we'll be the inside looking out.
 Swell prospect, isn't it? And if that isn't enough there's Virginia. Even if my wife would consent to a divorce she'd have none of me. I'm in a hole. Question is: what's to be done?"
 Couldn't you go West for your health; Reno, for instance ?"
 Suppose interposed TheIn1a sweetly, that I'm really in love with this gfnk I'm tied to and don't want to break away?''
 Then the good Lord help you." returned Buck lugubriously. Did you think I was kidding you about a seven-dollar job and tenement stuff %
 "Well-''
 II wasn't. You don't know my him?'
 Witness refuses to auswer,' she flashed, smiling enigmaicily.
 Whats this?" asked Manning.
 Goodness knows. She thinks she recognized the picture of Uncle Charles"
 Do you know your husbands Un- c1e Charley" boomed Stratford.
 Say, listen here, you men-folks. If I've got any dope that concerns me alone it can't be pumped out. But I'll say that if I'm right in thinking what I think, maybe me m Bucky- boy won't have to uplight no tene- ment with our august presences.
 Buck shrugged hopelessly.
 Just something else to keep me guessing. I'm a perfect boob!"
 
 Thelma threw ardent arms about him f-and as she pressed close there came from the bosom of her gown the dis tinct crackle of paper. She had the grace to flush as she extracted tele- gram.
 Buck ripped open the nissive, read the contents once and dropped Imply into a seat, the telegram f1uttering helplessly to the floor Thelnla was beside him in an instant
 Howard Manning picked up the crumpled bit of paper, and read aloud:
 Mid dIevale, Pennsylvania David Mccartney, 'Riverview Apartments, New York City. Your telegram received Virginia and I leaving night train. Arrive Pennsylvania Depot 10:20. Meet us- UNCLE CHARLEY" The inmates of the room stared at one another Buck spoke:
 My telegram, I suppose you'n tell me wired him to come2' The trio looked at each other and nodded.
 Next thing" said Buck slowly. there's going to be a nurse coming in that door to tell me it's twinss" tTo Be Continued) 1 (CopyTlgflt. 1922. Thompson Feature Servicel
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SECTION
[H9 Dietand Health
 s1ae.,4rr By Lulu Hunt Peters. MD s"r .audtor @ Diet and aaH .ih Ksg to hse Caharses
vI1IItr Hunt Peters. MD
r@ Diet and dHeaLh, ,sDIfh Keu to tlse Caloriis

science. In truth. COrnS may cHupS death; and they have done so when they have become infected. Unusually infection has been caused by cutting with an unsterile knife. Suppura= tion takes places in the little bursa or sack under the corn if it becomes tn-- fected, and this infection may extend into the joints and surrounding tis- sues and finally into the general cir culation.
 In case of an infection like @this. the cornS should be treated very re- spectfully. Soak the feet in hot an tiseptic solution such as one per cent lysoI Gone teaspoonful to three quarts of hot water) and keep gauge conn presses with some antiseptic on them -boric acid powder is good. Only sterile instruments should be used to pare corns You can sterilize krife buy putting it through a flame two or three times. Ass
 It is really better not to pare corns but to use a lotion to soften and then soak them off. Salicylic acid has the property of softening hardened cuti- cle and is usually the rnedicant in the corn remedies on sale. Soak the feet before applying and then apply the solution night and morning for the three to six days: then soak in hot water softened with soda, a teaspoon- 1 ally be gently pulled off. This, as our first authority told uS. really does not take the proliferanng5 layer of the skin off and the corn may grow again if there is pressure-for corns, like callouses, are really an ef- fort of Nature against pressure.
 Rnn,ons
 Bunions are always due to the wear= ing of shoes that do not fit, usually that are too short. Children especia1- ly should have shoes large enough to allow for their growing. Bunions are partial dfslocations of the great toe from pressure. Eventually the toe joint becomes enlarged and inffanaed and the bursa or sack on the joint also becomes inf1amed. Now may coins misery The only real cure for this is the operative removal of the pro- jecting joint.
 Corn Remedy
 Sa1icylic acid. one dram (about a level teaspoonfuD.
 Flexible collodion, one ounce.
 Ten grains cannibis indica may be added to relieve pain. Apply as ex- plained above.
 Tomorow-Foot Notes
 Copyright, 1922, George Matthew
 Adams
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Little Margie:-A1l the dyes are es fly handled; since directions VII them are so explicit it is merely
 matter of doing exactly what they sal Peacock blue will dye navy wfthoJ any risk.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-06-29

Esther:-Meas1es are contagioslS which accounts for the quarantfJles They may be taken at least threv
 times, but are always lighter with each attack,
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Marylinn:-At IS, it. 111h inches your weight should be no pounds. Massage the scalp every night to get 1t into healthier condition and when thei hair is too oily dust a little taIcum into it. The blackheads and pimpled will disappear if you live on a stmp diet and take a hot bath every da This clears the system. relieving [ pores of the face.
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ANSWERED. LETTERS

F'renchy:-A good quality of olive oil can be used on the face quite as well as almond oil.
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But of all this he had said nothing to Peggy, his daughter. He had neith- CT written to her nor telephoned. for be had no desire that she should know l more than the obvious facts as to the death of Hawk Kennedy, for conflict ing reports would lead to questions. Since she had suspected nothing, st was needless to bring that horror to her notice. now that the threat had passed. McGuire was little afraid of his colorful daughter. She talked too much, and it had been decided that mob ody except the lawyer, Peter, Beth and Mrs. Bergen should know the source of Beth's sudden and unexpect- ed inheritance.
 self somewhat disturbed when he learned one morning over the tele- phone that Peggy McGuire and guest were on their way to Black Rock House for the weekend. The message came from the clerk of the hotel, and since Peggy and her friend had al- ready started from New York, he knew of no way to intercept them There was nothing to do but make the best of the situation.
 Peter had the best guest room, but Beth had decided the day before to return to the cottage, which was greatly in need of her attention. And so Mcclure informed Mrs. Bergen of the impending visit and gave orders that Miss Peggy's room and room in the wing should be prepared for the newcomers.
 Beth had no wish to meet Peggy McGuire in this house after the scene with Peter in the cabin, when the young lady had last visited Black Rock, for that encounter had given Beth glimpses of the kind of thoughts beneath the pretty toques and cerise veils that had once been the apple of her admiring eyes. But as luck would have it, as Beth finished her after noon's visit to Peters beside and hur- ried down to get away to tine village gy's low runabout roared up to the portico. Beth's first impulse was to draw back and go out through the kitchen, but the glances of the two girls met, Pesgy's in an instant recognition. And so Beth tilted her chin and walked down the steps just beside the machine, aware of en .ele- gantly attired lady with a doll-like prettiness who sat beside Peggy, ob- livious of the sharp invisible daggers which shot from eye to eye.
 You here!" said Peggy, with an insulting shrug.
 Beth merely went her way. But no feminine adept of the art of give and take could have shown a more perfect
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Georgiana:-At this season of the year Q sallow skin usually denote that the system is in need Of more green things. Instead of the heavy starchy foods you have been eating all winter, have at least one green veg etable and a spring salad with your dinner. A salad made from dandeliou leaves will act as a tonic beside clear= ing the skin. A good skin bleach may be attained through the juice Of cucumbers.
 L. B.:-Hair follicles are destroyed by the treatment through the electric needle. It is very slow as each ha1r is treated separately.
 Ruth:-The callous spots on your hands will soften and peel off them selves if you are not doing the thing that caused them. You can hasten it somewhat by rubbing a pumice stone over them after each time you wash the hands.
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Tomorrow-Artifica Waved Hairt
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Tomorow-Foot Notes Copyright, 1922. George Matthew
 Adams
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-12-20

was speaking Of him?-H. NJ. ny 4
believe one Of his best bits Of acting was
In Joan. the Woman when the French
Count was drunk and Joan was being
burned. II I remember correctly.
wnlly Reid wasn't In this picture. but
was In every other picture Of the series.
His work In The Woman God Forgot
Il think that was the name Of it) was
certainly fine. Also in The Blue
ctcne,' another old picture.
Nowadays nm actor or actress Is
made stnr simply because Of his
drawing abb ity. A really grcnt actor
isn't one just because he doesn't play
TO the box office. 1t doesn't seem fair.
but still what is to be done? l really
believe. however. Is per cent OF our
popular favoritrs really can act. hut
have no desire to do SO. as their box
Office influence Is better ns they nre.
Most Of them have given one or two
good performances. but that's all. Still
1t shows they have II in them.
''I,ut when an actor doesn't do his
best for a good many pictures he finds.
much to his sorrow. that he can't seem
W ket bdCh W
Take wally. Whether a person
likes or dis 'ikcs him. you've got to nd.
nit he has given some wonderful act.
ing to the screen. His work in the
photoplays have mentioned were bits
of art. and his Peter 1bbetson' was
splendid. Then he made n few good
pictures like The Charm School, But
Peter was his last good pnrt.
"Sincr then he has seemed to :ct
himself 60. lie tried to catch himself
in Clarence. and succeeded to Ger.
tain extent. NOT nearly to the extent he
would have desired. but just the same
to n certain extent. wally still has
some good acting eft in him. and with
a good picture. or rather a story. ana
n good director. he should stage n
Comeback Perhaps his illness will
help him. md he will GO back with a
new cim. Trouble is he has been com.
ing out in far too many pictures. Fans
grow tired o. seeing an actor so often.
Norma Tolmadsc is m, favoritc.
She is one Of the most beautiful ae.
tresses on the screen. bit she n one
of the few who combine looks with act.
ing. Her 'Smilin' Through is.a mas.
tprpiccc. and Tho Eternal Flame IL
also good. outside Of the title. II II
wasn't for hersc T.. however. 1t would
have been bad ricture. The costumes.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-12-20

bringing out the real art Of the screen.
ard was dacidei improvement over
the asnin- 'Tol'able David
But one more nightmare like 'Tol' &.
nbl. David will surely h.. the prover.
! hisl lsst straw. An article in n r"crnt
issue Of popular fan magazine Cto
which every fan should subscribe. as it
keeps one M on the inside life Of the
stnrSI intimatrd that Henry kiGng is
anything but a speudthrift. and To-
nhlc David only s.ems to intensity
this nissa-dines.. 1t would seem from
-Toi'able David that Mr.. Kings sole
, objects in his cinema ventures are mer.
c-nary. as b. spends very little money
on hts acts. and worse yet. allows 81
I little for Barthslmess clothes. thus