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and each day have put it off simply
because the things that was burning
to say 1 could not and the things that
1 could say seemed so commonplace.
Without Any FTTiIls
However, mother dear, this life
is mostly made up of commonplace
things. Jack was trying TO tell me
the other evening how mOnotonous
was his work at the office and it
seems to me that the last week here
in the hotel has been absolutely With
out any thrills.
Perhaps it is because [ had such a
thrill a little while ago I burned
my hand quite badly.
It was a silly accident and one f T
which I was entirely to blame. I was
foolish enough not to quickly reason
before I gave myself the luxury of
yielding to an impulse, but that does
not make the pain of it all any easier
to bear.
You see, I tried to grasp and put
out some burning paper that prom
Used to make sad hOvOc among some
of my possessions that l treasure
most and l foolishly kept my hand
shut quite a while after the paper
had dropped to the floor. When 7
opened it the blistered skin had pulled
apart leaving the whole inner surface
raw.
That is the reason I am debating
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WHY Be 'Sheik'?

Dear Martha Lei am boy OF 3 and
run with other boys my age who seem to
have all the Eir's In town nuts about them
while 7 newer have date have not
large feet. a. some OF the gang s4y
but am clumsy on those ] have ] am
surs J wouiJ make IS 0ne "shciA II I did
not blunder on my feet can not d7uco
and mo- girl viii teach me. for every time
I have tried I seemed nearly 70 kill her by
" ,lIlIng on her feet would you suggest
that ! find q new bunch. or take daurlus
lessons; What is the usual rate for the
--latest dauors; HINDU.
Why on earth do you want TO be a
"shcik"? You would find yourself
being liked only because you were good
looking ana danced well.
/ should think you would find so
many other interes.s now-sports.
sciences. books-that You would not
have time to bother about the girls
Find somO real boz friends-not
"sheiks."
II you really want to get over your
clumsiness by taking dancing lessons
believe you could get a course Of
twelve lessons for about $40.
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Martha Lees AdUice
Girl Who Does Not Work
Laughe d at by Friends

Times havc-it really is a
shame to repeat anything so trite
still, times undoubtedly have
changed.
Many of you readers will re
member the day when girls were
just beginning to get out and
shift for themselves" You
know how strange and almost freak
ish it seemed for a girl who did not
have to. to take a commercial post
ton.
Today 7 had letter from a girl
who wonders how she can keep her
girl friends from making fun OF her
because she does not work
Yes, times have changed
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Meetings Here
Tuesday

Eli Lilly & Co.-Luncheon and
dinner. SEVERN.
indianapolis Purchasing Assn.
Luncheon, SEVERN.
Life Underwriters - Meeting,
Lincoln.
Indiana Retail Coal Merchants
Convention, Claypool.
Optimists Club-Dinner-dance,
Claypool.
Honorary Society of Psi Kappa
Psi-Dinner. Claypool.
Hallmark Members - Meeting
and luncheon, ClaypOOl.
Springer Heirs-Meeting, Clay
pool
Plumbers Assn.-Meeting, Den
ison.
Phi Pi Psi Sorority-Meeting-
card party, Sphinx Harms.
Order of Eastern Star-Conven-
ton. Spink-Arms.
Capitol Lumber Co.-Smoker,
c. of c.
Woman's City CIub-Dinner. c.
of c.
American Legion, Post 55-C.
of c.
Indianapolis Whist Club
Luncheon, SEVERN.
indianapolis Motor Bus Assn
Luncheon, Lincoln.
Purchasing Agents-Luncheon.
seventh floor, c. of c.
nT5I,S.1 Z 80, Dot
Legion-Luncheon, seventh floor,
c. of c.
American Legion. Post 81
Luncheon, Board of Trade.
Allied Motor Commerce -
Luncheon; Spiuk-Arms.
Rotary Club-Luncheon, Clay
pool.
I. a. A. U.-Luncheon, seventh
floor. c. of c.
Paints. Oil and Varnish Club
Luncheon, seventh floor, c. Of c.
Grace Presbyterian Men
Luncheon, seventh floor, c. of G.
Gyro Club-Luncheon, Lincoln.
Mercator Club - Luncheon,
Spink-Arms.
EstimatOrs' Club Dinner,
Spink-Arms.
American Chemical Society
Luncheon, 1915 p. m, seventh
floor G. of g.
3. p. o. f. No. 13.-Lodge
meeting, Denison.
University of Michigan Alum
ni-Luncheon, Lincoln.
American Legion-Luncheon
SEVERN.
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|
MADE
Candies
BY MRS. ORA SNYDER
Americas Candy Queen
MOLASSES CANDY

Il cup water.
p cup sweet cream.
q cup corn sirup.
/ cup best grade molasses.
y cup light brown sugar
! cup graduated sugar.
Mix we'll and after batch comes to
boil stir occasionally to keep from
burning. Cook to the hard ball stage
and remove from fire. Add pinch of
salt and pinch of soda, Il cup butter
and y teaspoon vanilla.
Mix we'll and cool on buttered slab
or platter. When cool enough to
handle, pull over hook until it is
creamy and a light yellow color. Cut
into small pieces and wrap in wax
paper or place on buttered plates.
This candy is very good with pep
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this letter to Jacks stenographer at
his office, my hand being still done
up in oil bandages.
In Jacks Old Room
We arrived home five days ago,
returning little earlier than 1 had
expected because of my accider Be
cause of it also we are staying in
Jacks old room in the hotel. We
have not tried to get an apartment
as yet.
l have not been out very much.
Jack and [ have even had most of
our dinners in our room. for I feel
perfectly foolish to eat or even go
about in public with my hand in
bandages and my arm in sling.
Jack has fortunately been very
busy since our return and evidently
has not missed his old friends. He
only comes back to the hotel to fall
asleep right after dinner.
want to get into our home, moth
er dear, for I intend if we only have
the tiniest apartment it must be a
home. 1t seems to me that I never
missed the one left as do now.
Here comes Jack to drive me to
the hotel. III finish this letter to-
morrow.
NEXT: Concluding the letter Les
lie wonders if even the man of her
choice won't bore her.
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COLT To HER MOTHER, MRS.
JOSEPH HAMILTON
DEAR MOTHER:

DEAR MOTHER:
I had not realized that I had not
written you for so long a time until
I got your last letter. AS you said
in it, no one should worry about a
bride on her wedding trip. Yet, dear
mother. sometimes things do happen
20 brides during that happy month
called the honeymoon and I am sorry
to say that I have been illustrating
that fact.
I have had quite an accident, but
I made Jack promise not to write
anything to you about it. Each day
I have been intending to write myself
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Dear Miss Lee am II and have been
going with d boy OF To- who is a junior in
high school ] think q good deal Of him.
but love another bow. rs. who also is g
Junior. Have been with him oucr or twice
and have gone 10 O. dance with him What
can do to get him 10 like ue mores
BROWN EYES.
Brown Eyes. get over this love idea
for few years. Apparently this boy
does ne you BE his friend, and
don't "sue him, if you want to keep
his friendship.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1923-04-23

TIME question of international re-
lations will be the principal sub
ject for discussion at the fourth
annual convention of the Indiana
League of Women Voters. to be held
at the Claypool. May 1. . and 3. A
mass meeting Will be held on the
opening evening. at which Miss Ruth
Morgan of New York, chairman of the
national leagues committee on inter
national cooperation to prevent war,
the principal speaker. will be fol
lowed by Prof. Robert Phillips OF
Purdue University. Mrs. George
S. Geuhorn of st. Louis, ed
itor of the Missouri League publica-
ton, and Mrs. William G. Hibbard OF
Winnetka, Ill, region director of the
national organization. viii be tho
speakers at the convention banquet on
Thursday evening.
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jury to Investigate killing

BIZ Times Special
WASHINGTON, Ind, April %
The county grand jury will go into
session Wednesday to investigate the
death of w. NJ. Gilley, who was slain
by Berry Hudson, following an argu-
ment over whether d member of the
Ku-Klux Khan could be d member Of
the United Mine Workers of America.
The shooting occurred on Thursday
night. Hudson is in the county Jail.
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NEXT-Don't for Dancers.
VINO. A. Gets e42 Bow Member.

The annual spring membership cam
paign of the colored branch of the
Y NJ C. A resulted in registration
of 252 boys, according to reports to-
day The branch now has 2,503 mem.
bers, 700 more than its nearest com
petitor, Chicago branch.
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Not Worth L

Dear Miss Lee am a girl of II and
used 10 go with a boy two years older than
l. We haven't been going together for q
long time. for no told me he had another
girl. He asked me for date after that
and ] gave II 10 him. He said l talked
about another boy too much, but he talked
of other yirls first. L like this boy very
much and would love to know how I can
win him back BOBBIE.
Don't try. He's not worth winning
back.
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ANY FAMILY MAY TRY 1T FREE

Thousands Of parents are asking
themselves, Where can / find trust
i0orthy laratIrs that anyone in the
family can use l0hen constipated?"
I urge YOU to Try Syrup Pepsin.
7 tGiH gladly provide a liberal free
sample bottle. sufficient for an adequate
test Write me rhere to send Il.
Address Or. ". b. Caldwell, SIS
Wash iH0ton St, Monticello, Illinois.
Do ii noDf
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107 Hours!
By United Press

By United Press
DALLAS. Texas, April 23.-R.
J. Newman, Dallas marathon
dancer hung up a new worlds
record here today Of 107 hours
continuous dancing.
Newman wound up his long
distance stepping shortly after 8
a. m. He was carried from the
dance hall
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weaken you. and their reaction
tends to make you more consti-
pated than before. .
Now try the milder method.
DIR. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin does
not lose its good effect with re-
peated use, and increased doses
are unnecessary. Mrs. E. M.
Burgess of Enfield, N. c., who Is
IS, keeps herself in good health
with it, and Mr.. Charles Chorman
of Stapleton, Staten Island, N. Y,
wasted fifteen years and consid-
cradle money on other remedies
before finding steady relief with
Syrup Pepsin.
Use DR.. Caldwell's Syrup Pep
sin yourself the next time you
suffer from consti patton, bilious
ness, headache, sleeplessness, in
digestion, piles or night cramps.
Many thousands of elderly people
use nothing else, and it costs them
less than a cent a dose. Druggists
have sold it successfully for 80
years, and it is the most widely
bought family laxative in the
world.
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BY ARTHUR MURRAY.
Director National Institute Of So
cial Dancing.
Copyright. 1923. NEA Service, Inc)
TNHE first essential to successful
following is to know the steps.
How can any one expect to
dance with a man unless she is IA
miliar with the steps he will do?
The second requirement is that
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permint flavor added. using q tea
spoon of oil of peppermint, and
emitting vanilla.
Copyright, 1928, NEA Service, Inc.)
NEXT: Cream taffy kisses.
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STUDENTS TO GIVE PLAY
Butler Actors Will Present Nicholson
Piece Tonight

Freshman and sOphomores of But
Ter College will play the parts in
Honor Bright" a comedy by Ken
yon and Meredith Nicholas, at the
Masonic Temple tonight.
The Butler Dramatic Club is pre-
scrting the play. In a previous pro
duction, the upper classmen took the
leading parts.
Marjorie Chiles and Morrison Davis
play the chief roles.
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ACTRESS GIVES SWEATER
Miss Oliver Makes First Bundle Day
Donation.

Miss Jean Oliver, leading woman
with the Grand Players at Enghsh's,
will donate the first sweater in the
Near East relief appeal for old cloth
ing for Bible land destitute.
Harry E. Jockey, chairman of Near
East bundle day, May /, has asked for
donations of 1, 900 sweaters. Manager
AID Miller Of English's has informed
the relief committee the lobby of the
theater may be used as a downtown
station on bundle day. Miss Oliver,
Miss Idabelle Arnold, Miss Margaret
Fink and Miss Alice Mason of the
Grand Players will receive bundles.
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so much the better. But If
nature will not operate it must
be assisted or sickness will follow.
Neglected constipation causes the
blood pressure to go up 20 per
cent, and that is the forerunner
of hardening of the arteries. It
makes rheumatism and govt
worse, too.
The ideal constipation remedy
for people of advancing years is
DR.. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin, a
vegetable compound of Egyptian
SIENNA and pepsin with pleasant
tasting aromatics. 1t is gentle
and mild, and does not cramp or
gripe. 1t is O mistake to think you
need a violent salt or powder or
pill, calomel, coal-tsr drugs and
such things. They purge and
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DO Not Slide Feet

When dancing. do not slide the
feet, but take them completely off
the floor. When your foot is off
the floor it is ready for the next
step which your partner may take.
To be light, dance on the tips of
the toes To follow we'll, let the
man guide you through his move
ments. Do not, while dancing,
think of your feet or your own
steps. Train your feet to know
the steps well enough so that they
will be able to take care of them
selves Then. when you dance with
a partner, trust your feet-not your
follow your partner.
NEXT-DOn't for Dancers.
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health, as every
one learns upon
reaching the age
of 90, is the regu-
lar daily move
ment of the bow
els. If it can be
effected through
the food you eat,
the water you
drink and the ex-
ercise you take,
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the lady dance in such a way as to
ALWAYS BE READY FOR THE
NEXT MOVEMENT, and inciden-
tally keep her feet out of her part
ner's way. This is accomplished by
cultivating the proper step.
1t is most important for tho lady
to develop long walking step. You
can do it easily and gracefully by
STRETCHING THE TOES BACK
WARD. Make the toes step back
ward as far as possible. Whether
you go backward, forward. or side
ways. MAKE THE TOES LEAD.
Girls Often Flop
In an effort to follow and to be
light, girls will often flop" or in
other words. give themselves up to
their partners" This form Of re-
laxing is detrimental to good fol
lowing as the girl simply throws
her weight to her partner and by
losing control Of her muscles, she
becomes heavy.
To follow wei. a girl must relax,
but she cannot make her body sup
pie without first becoming thor
oughly familiar with the movements
which her partner may do.
1t is not enough for a girl to sim
ply relax and let her partner liter
ally carry her around. To follow
we'll she must first train the muscles
OF her body to become thoroughly
familiar with the various dancing
steps her partner may do.
The lady should not lean or bear
down heavily on her partner. The
man has to hold his own arms up
throughout the whole dance--a pc
riod Of from three to fifteen min
utes. If he must dance for that
length of time with some one who
leans heavily upon his arms, he
win not consider his partner as
a light dancer. The weight OF the
person does not determine whether
or not she is a light dancer. Fat
people are usually the lightest dano-
erS
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This Laxative Works
Fine on Old People

Thousands have kept themselves healthy
with Dr.. Caldwsll's Syrup Pepsin
A DVAN GIN age with it's
N subdued ambitions and
strivings could be made very
happy If only good health accom-
panied 1t, and the basis Of good
tn
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FRS. c. F. VOYLES entertained
NE the members Of the Present
I've Day Club with a noon lunch
con at her home on \. Meridian st.
today. Covers were laid for thirty at
tables decorated with spring flow
ers. Following the luncheon mu-
steal program was given. Miss Ra-
mond Kittle of Los Angeles. Cal.
was a guest.
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NEXT: Concluding the letter Les
lie wonders if even the man of her
choice won't bore her.
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Among the Indianapolis girls who
will attend the annual house party or
the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity at
Purdue University May 4, 5, and 8.
are Miss Anna c. Gardner and Miss
Mary Patia Carver. Mrs. Edgar 0.
Coffman Of Indianapolis will be the
house chaperon.
Evening star., 1923-06-20

the same unimportapt way:
And when you saw DIR. Waring
that night was there red ring on
his forehead?"
No said Miss Austin. and then,
suddenly awakening to what she
had done she cried impetuousIy, II
mean, | don't know. 1 wasn't here"
| Stone smiled gravely You were
here" he said. Now let us talk
about what happened during your
| visit"
| An interruption was caused by a.
tap at the closed door.
| lmpatiently, Trask rose and went
! TO the door. 1t was Ito. bringing a.
/ telegram for Miss Austin. 1t had ar
rived at the Adams house and had
been sent over.
Miss Mystery read 1t, with great
difficulty controlled her agitation, as
she quickly went to the blazing log
| fire and dropped the paper in.
| Skip over to the telegraph Office
and get q copy" said Stone quietly,
and Fibsy obeyed
Then to Miss Austins continued
distress Stone read the message
aloud 1t was from San Francisco
and 1t said:
Better own up and tell the whole
| truth. / have annexed Carl" 1t was
signed merely "a" and apparently ii
Miss Mystery sat silent and wide
eyed in desperation as she looked
| hopelessly from one to another.
Don't you think" said Stone. not
unkindly, that you'd better follow
AS advice and make a clean breast Of
the whole matter?"
CONTINUED tOmOrrOwl
Evening star., 1923-06-20

had her visiting him in his study late
at night. She said at FIRST she wasn't
here, but as she left the impress of
her dress trimmings on that chair
back. and as she has a ruby pin and
lot of money that were in the doc
tors possession. it looks. one might
Weren't the valuables planted on
her?" put IN Fibsy. ~ i. !
That's what she says-or, rather
that's one of the things she said
The girl oontradicted herself conVn-
ualiy. She says one thing one day
and another the next"
rs she pretty?" This from Fibsy
Pretty as the devil" And that's
not so bad as a description. She has
great big dark eyes, with straight
black brows that almost meet.
| she has a jaunty little face. tina,
can be roguish or scornful or merry
or pathetic as the little. rascal
chooses. She has completely bowfed
me over, and I'd be glad to have her
on any terms and whatever her past
history. But, there 1t is. If she has
clean slate in this murder business
| l want to know it
| And If she hasn't?'
Then / don't want anybody else
to know it. If you fnd, Mr.. Stone
John Waring. or IL she confesses to
the deed, then you whip around and
| prove a suicide. and I'll double your
charge. You needn't do anything
wrong, v,1 I you know. Just sum up tina!
all indications point to a suicide, and
let 1t go at that. Nobody will arres,
Miss Austin if you say that"
you must be crazy, Mr.. Trask,'
returned Stone. coldly II don't con-
duct my business on any such prin,
ciples as that. l can't perjure mysel
to save your lady love from jus,
condemnation"
You haven't seen her yet" Ira sl
nodded his sagacious head. Wait til
you do
Give me all the points against
her the detective suggested.
Il VIII. I'd rather you knew them
from me. Not that I'll color them
they're facts that speak for them.
selves, but other people might exag
gerate them, Well. to begin. With
this girl. day or SO after she ar.
rived here, was seen kissing the pic
ture of DR.. Waring which she had GU
1rom newspaper. | tell you this
cause you'll hear IL. anyway. ant
! the gossips think 1t shows a pre-
vfous acquaintance between the two
But | hold that as girls have mat
inee idols and movie heroes, this CIR
might easily have adored the scholar
iy man. though she had never seeI
him"
1T is possible" Stone agreed, blu
| were acquainted?"
| Yes. Vows she never saw hin
until one night she went to his lee
ture, soon after her arrival here"
What is she in Corinth for?"
To Sketch-She's an artist"
Go on"
We'll. as i said, she might hav,
come here that Sunday night. for on,
of the boarders at the house she live.
in saw her cros; the snowy field. Also
the footprints just fitted her shoes
Also, the tracks led right up to tn,
side porch here to that long Frencl
window. And led right back again
| to the Adams house.
"Whew." Fisby exploded "aren'
you rubbing it imp
We'll, that's what they tell me
TraSk asserted. doggedly. and l wan
you TO know it all Mr.. Stone, befor,
the other people tell you garbIec
| version"
Go on" :
Then. they say. the girl left mark.
of her dress trimming on that chair
land Lockwood. the secretary, rubbed
Evening star., 1923-06-20

the body was discovered. We have
the. word of two witnesses for this
episode" -
who are the witnesses?'
Ito, the Japanese butler. and Miss
Peyton, who lives in this house,
! Go on!'.s
We'll, then. ever since the tragedy,
Miss Austin has acted queer Queer
in all sorts of ways. She Is sad and
desolate one minute, and saucy ana
Independent the next. j cant make
her out at all And she is more than
half in love with this Lockwood. l
have to cut him out, you see. AND |
figure, If you prove the case against
Miss Austin. and If I agree to marry
her and hush up the whole mat|er'
and make II seem suicide -
You figure that she'll throw over
the secretary for you." cried Fiosy'
his eyes aghast at the mans plan
Exactly that. You see. Mr.. stone,
I don't try TO deceive You. while
have natural sorrow at my cousin's 9
death. yet remember that 1 never
knew him in life: aud that. while
want to avenge his death in any case
but one, do not want to II II I'M
plicates Anita Austin"
II understand" said Stone, seem
ingly not 80 shocked at the converse
tion as his assistant was.
There's another queer thing" said
Trask. They tell me that when the
body was found there was the impress
of ring on the forehead"
"a seal ring?''
"Oh, no. Not a finger ring but a
circle, about two inches across, red
mark, as II It had been made as a
sign or symbol of some sort"
at remained on the fiesh?'
Until the embalming process took
place. That removed ii. l didn't see
it. but I'm told 1t was a clearly de-
fined circle. quite evidently Impressed
with some intent" s.
ciety," Fibsy suggested, but Stone
paid no heed.
Lets reconstruct the case" he
said: "Waring sat at his desk, his
secretary outside in that hall?"
Yes: the Japanese. the other one
the one that disappeared. brought ir
water and then Doctor Waring CLOSED
the door and locked it."
Immediately?
II don't know that, but anyway, nc
one that we know of saw him agar
alive. Nogi is under no suspicion. fol
after he came out of the room, the
| doctor rose and locked the door
Lockwood can't be suspected. as he
heard the door locked. and couldn't
get in. He is more or less suspected
because OF his penholder, but mucf
as 1 should like to think him the
criminal. j know he isn't"
You're very honest, Mr.. Trask."
| Yes, because want the truth. Car
you get it?'
| II think so"
You still eliminate suicide?"
! II can't see how / can think II
| with no weapon. You say that deatf