Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1922-04-07
StarHgh 7
by the Noted Author
IDAH M'GLONE GIBSON
Mrs. Chester's Advise

Theodore Stratton has beer
che great lover. Ingenues hav'
come and ingenues have gone II
mis- company. OF some of then
Maud Samson has been coldly con
temptuous. OF others, like your
self. she has been furiously Jeal
ous. Her quarrels with Theo have
at times torn the entire Holly
wood colony from end to end.
20 have never blamed her, even
when she has ruined pictures witt
her fits of temper and tempermen'
My dear child, cannot believe,
do not believe that any man OF
any woman has the right to play
with hearts and souls as Theodore
5tratton has done with the heart
and soul of Maud Samson.
ITO be the great lover has be-
come an obsession with him. The
day you walked on the lot and he
came forward to greet you"
broke in upon her:
"Yes, you all knew didn't you,
and you said among yourselves:
Here Is Theodore Stratton's latest
plaything.' Oh, why didn't you
come then and tell me. Why did
you let him break my heart. Oh,
/ don't want to be great picture
actress! 1t is a cruel game, I
don't want to play game where
/ have to take and turn my emo
lions into little CLEANS of star
light for the unfeeling and misun-
derstanding and unsmypathetic
Ind unappreciating to see and
talk about.
You talk to me about Maud
SAMSON! What about Theodore
STATIONS wife, Mrs. Chester?" l
asked eagerly
She probably married him
very young, Virginia. She is a
woman of no particular attraction
She has borne him two children
and evidently worked very hard
ior years as her knotted fingers
show.
after Stratton began to make
money he bought a little place
tor her and the children. Now,
Ifter sending her a certain part
If his income each week, he thinks
lie has done all that could be ex-
)ected Of him."
"How horrible And he-and
le--! Oh, Mrs. Chester, do you
inow what he would have"
lgain l began to sob.
"Yes, l know my child. Ii
gave me the toothache."
l smiled even through my tears
do you mind my telling you,
you remind me of Aunt Virginia,
Mrs. Chester? You are very dir
ierent in your way of expressing
t but l am sure you think the
same about things"
l am just a young woman
,rown old, Virginia. Not quite
I'D enough to have forgotten that
/ once was young and l loved and
| hated and | wept and sung and
[ laughed and l grieyed. Not quite
I'D enough yet to have settled
town into apathetic waiting for
he qualification of the last two
lenses left me. In other words,
NY dear, am still extremely crit
cal of my red pepper.
l looked at Mrs. Chester so in
luiringly that she went further
.nto explanations, more because
ihe was trying to calm my nerves
than anything else.
Don't you know, Virgie, that
every woman, yes and every man
who lives his allotted three score
and ten reaches that time in life
NhSh hpo AOOuo hCaAo LhOlc W Min
than anything else. Taste seems
he last sense to become blunted |
First we lose sOur eyesight, then
perhaps We detect that we do not
near as well as we used to do |
Then one day we find that which
used to grieve us is passed by with |
indifference, With that lack OF
subllmited feeling l believe also
The physical feeling is deadened |
but smelling and tasting-the
senses which make our dinners
more than mere eating-almost
always become more acute as a
person grows older.
Some day you will wonder, as
you think back on tonight, what
made your heart ache so. Some
day with a laugh you will prob
ably tell your husband of my
Loothache and say that one was
quite as imaginary as the other"
Il may think it, dear Mrs. Ches-
ter, but it is one of the things
hat l shall never tell to my hus-
band II l have one 1t hurts too
much for ME to ever forget enough
TO smile about IT,"
You had better try and sleep
now Before came up stairs to-
night l heard the assistant direc-
tor saying that we were going to
be all day on location doing exter-
ors and interiors of the yacht. |
think 1t is going to be rather cold
90. especially II they take the
ieck dance at night instead Of the
afternoon"
obediently | turned over and
,rept TO the further edge OF the
harrow bed with my face against
he wall.
tried to thinA what I would