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New Britain herald., 1925-08-12
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q did mean if, my dear Lady of the Shows, I did mean it, and to show you that l do still mean it, l am going to take you over 10 Att lantic City where at this moment the Atlantis is proudly riding the waves.
 twill you please forgive me for the little joke, and will you dine in- stead of lunch on my gallant ship"
 "So you're really going to take us over by aeroplane, MT, Sartows"" said Mrs. Daives.
 "Of course, by passenger aero planes" he answered as calmly as if that kind of travel were as usual as motoring If you are ready we will drive out to StotsOn field and take of from there.'
 "Jack." l whispered as the others were getting into the motors, "why did you wager with any man about me? Everyone must see you are making my iliosyncracios 2 hy- word"
 No they don't my dear. They just think | hat you take what every one says, or al least what everyone Of your friends says, 8 gospel truth, and don't worry either them or yourself about it. Ii Is a lovely characteristic, my dear and l con sider the wager a compliment In any event, tt las won you several hundred dollars"
 "Or in other words" l interrupt ed, it has won me that lovely old chest we saw in New York the last time we were over there. 1 still think l paid dearly for it, however, for I am afraid some of them will say my husband loves 2 gamble bet ter than he loves his wife, I don't like anyone 10 think that. not even our friends who would probably re- gard you leniently"
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 TOMORROW -- Letter from Les lie Prescott tO Ruth Burke.
New Britain herald., 1925-08-12
You'll pay for this some day, young woman"

her he loved her. , The oman in the mirror would make q desir- able wife for any man, even a mil lionaire like Herhy!
 I'm fine one to he passing out a6vice to Carlotta about landing a husband, when I cant seem to do 1t myself" she told herself bitterly. Here l am with twice her looks
 X sudden thought struck her. Per haps Carlotta had already told Herhs about Dr. Johni In that case, Herby had probably decided not to take a chance of unhappiness by marrying the widow of a suicide!
 Yes, that must be it -,
 A sudden wave of hopelessness submerged May. She threw herself upon the bed, and Wept long and silently for herself.
 Al last she dried her eyes, and propped up on one elbow, looked out at the gray rain. A tap came at the door. She dragged herself across the room 10 open fl.
 You're the very person I wanted to see!" May told her, as she shut the door. Have you, by any chance told Herby Waterbury about my hus- hanh killing himself? =. If you have, please be honest and tell me so,"
 But Cariotta shook her blonde head vigorously. Indeed I have not" she said, choosing a cigaret from the blue. enameled case that swung at her wrist "I swear it, on q stack of seven Bibles"
 She struck a match to her cigaret, and leaned back in her chair staring at the ceiling with eyes that were red and swollen.
 Can you tell I've been crying ?" she asked May suddenly,
 May nodded. You can see for yourself that have," she answered. "G suppose we've both been bawlins about the same thing. too men,
 "Oh, sure" Csrlotta answered with her carelsse slang Tell me your troubles first, and then I'll tell you mine"
 But May slowly shook her head,
 Mine aren't the kind that can be told right now" she said. ''so go ahead with yours didn't Dan propose to you last night Is that what's wrons7"
 Carletta walked ever the the win,
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Peter Rabbit sat in the Green Forest with his head tilted back staring up at the broken home of Mrs. Timmy the Flying Squirrel way lip near the top of tall tree. He saw Mrs. Timmy climb that tree and disappear in the end of the stub of a broken limb. In q minute she came out. Peter stared harder than ever.
 Mrs, Timmy looks funny" said he. "Ycs, sir, she certainly looks funny. Why, I do believe she has one of those babies in her mouth. Yes, sir, that's it.
 Peter was right. Mrs. Timmy did have baby Squirrel. She was carry ing it in her teeth. But If Peter could have seen clearly from down there the way in which she was carrying that baby he would be more surprised than he was. She wasn't carrying it as a cat carries a kitten or a dog carries puppy. No, sir, she wasn't carrying it that way at all. That little Squirrel seemed to be rolled up in little ball and was clnging fast to his mothers neck while she held him in her teeth tightly by the loose skin. She was carrying him in such a way that he | didn't interfere with her move ments. She could climb and she could run and she could jump with him, which she couldn't have done had she been carrying him as cat carries a kitten.
 Peter was watching for her to come down the tree with the baby and hoped she would give him chance 10 see just what that little baby looked like. So perhaps you can guess how surprised Peter was when suddenly Mrs. Timmy jumped from way Up where she was and went sailing out and down, down, down, across the Laughing Brook. jumped without a baby, Peter was so surprised that he stared after her with his mouth open. He saw her glide down, down. and then alight gently on the foot of certain tree. At once she began to climb that tree, still carrying that baby. who had had Its first experience in fly ing without wings. She didn't run up that tree as fast as she had run up before but still she went up at a pretty lively rate. From where he sat Peter could see that little baby Flying Squirrel, like little fur ball, at his mothers throat.
 l When Mrs. Timmv reached 6 cer- tain hole high up in the tree she disappeared inside, A moment later she was out, but this time she wasn't carrying the baby. The baby was in his new home. Back came Mrs. Timmy, sliding down the air 10 alight on the old stump near Peter.
 There's one of them over there,"
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THE STORY so TAR,

May Seymour. whose husband, Dr. John Seymour, killed himself be- cause of her love affair with Jim CareHe, returns 10 her home town after a years absence.
 She comes late one night to the home of her lawyer. Dick Gregory, and Gloria, his wife. She tells them how the ugly story of her past has followed her everywhere. And so she has made up her mind to go to Europe where no one will know her.
 She turns over the sale of her house to Ulysses x. torgan, a wealthy widower. And she begs Dick to sell her stocks and bonds at once for whatever they will bring. All she wants, she says is enough money to dress the part of d rich widow SO that she can land a hus- band with money.
 A week later with sS,o00 in her handbag, May goes to Atlantic City for rest before sailing, There she meets q divorcee, Carlotta Frolking and her friends, Dan Spruce and Herbert Waterbury.
 Dressed for the part of uistful widow, May lays siege to Water bury's heart, He gives two or three parties Tn her honor, and shows her pictures of his houses, Sure that he is the millionaire husband she is looking for, May leads him to believe that she has much more money than he $12,0oo Forgan says he can get for her house.
 One day Waterbury asks May to have tete-a-tete luncheon with him. He tells her that he loves her rassionate!y, but doesn't ask her to marry him.
 tN0W GO ON WITH THE STORy)
 May was sick with angry disap- pointment as she said goodbye 10 Herbert Waterbury and went up to her room. Taking off her wraps, she gave the mirror a long, closu scrutiny.
 It offered 10 her eyes, the picture of a woman of apparent wealth-a young and beautiful woman dressed in expensive clothes, wearing expen- sive iewelry.
 Why then had Herhy failed 10 ask her to marry him when he had told
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l Poor little thing" she thought, with compassion. Think of caring for man the way she does for Dan, and then 10 have him tell you he's crazy about another woman,'
 How long have you been in love T ith Dan?" she asked.
 Twelve years" Carlotta answered dismally, T was down in Mexico with my husband-My husbands a bridge builder, you know. And Dan was there with some oil people"
 T was only tN enty-four, at the time," she went on, stealing 8 glance into the mirror above Mays dressing liable.
 "The minute saw Dan I was in love with him-not in the lukewarm way I'd cared for my husband-but forever and ever. The kind of fool affection q woman has for just one person in her whole life.
 "Well. he seemed 10 care about mo just that Way-at first; I couldn't stand living with my husband. So I dashed back 10 the states. and di- vorced him, Of course, I had no reason in the world to do it. But I did"
 And you thought Dan would mar ry you, ss soon as you were free. May finished the story for her, And he never has, Isn't that it?"
 Carlotta Frolking nodded. and stared al May with her red-rimmed round eyes. And he never will, she added. "1 know ii. And vet I keep hoping against hope that he will-Tf he comes cast, I follow him, And he doesn't pay any more at- tention to me than he would 10 his sister, if he had one. Not as muchi''
 She smoked in silence for few minutes, lost in her own gloomy thoughts,
 Tn the silence of the room, The tinkIe of the telephone sounded loud and portentous.
 Dan Sprague's voice again
 I'll meet you outside on the | Boardwalk in ten minutes May told him. shortly, and hung up the re- ceiver.
 Making dates with the hotel cierk?" Carlotta's high voice wal shrill with scorn, Whats the use of lying to me. Mrs. Seymour know you're going out to meet Dan I just know it!"
 she stoed up and whirled ataAsl
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MAY SEYMOUR |F00TIO0SE bV DENIDlCE DllDIOM @

1 dow, and stood with her back tc May, apparently absorbed in hel view of the ocean,
 "N--not exactly" she answered presently But he told me he's in love with another woman. Now, car you ina zine his having the nerve tc say a thing like that to me, after all these ycars?"
 She turned suddenly to May. and began 10 cry,
 Who's the woman Francie Lee'" May asked
 NO, It's you" Carotta sobbed into her handkerchief
 May gasped with astonishment She got up and patted the unhappy little woman on one of her plump shaking shoulders.
 "Oh, he's just teasing you. You don't believe such tommy-rot, dc you'" she asked,
 Carlotta shook Mays hand off. In stantly. Relieve 1t! Of course I be lieve it" she cried. Didn't I watch | you NamrlnS nm Just as nara as you could the other day, when you were swimming together .,. Oh. I'm not blind, you know saw what you were doing"
 May laughed with asperation, My dear woman." she began. "I don't want your Dan. Nice as he Is, I wouldn't have him as a gift"
 The tinkle of the wall-telephone broke in upon her spiritual renun- citation of Dan sprague, Hello, Merry Widow" It waH his voice that came gaylv over the wire How would you like 10 put on your clothes and go for walk in the rain, with me-"
 May hesitated, She wanted to, talk 70 Dan, but she certainly did not want tarotta 10 know about 1t Gan you call me again in about fifteen minutes"" she asked guard - edly,
 "Who vas that" "' Carlotta asked suspicously when she turned away from the telephone. "It was Dan. wasn't it."
 "Certainly not" May fibbed with out so much as the flicker IS an eye last. Tt was the clerk, downstairs" She was sure that Carlotta did not heliete her
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memory of studies long since in the limbo of unused things and always with the same result-utter tutility. With impotent wrath al my fail ure l picked up the card and scan ned it closely. trying 10 look at 1t as | If never had seen it before. And suddenly l gave a suppressed "hoop and sezing a pencil and fresh sheets of paper fell furously to work.
 Less than an hour later, I gazed down at a sheet of paper upon which were set down rows of figures ar ranged as If for addition, figures which l was certain, whatever their meaning might be, were the things which Steve" had camouflaged,
 I felt much as did the repor- ter who received for the asking photograph of a prominent woman figuring in the news Of the day, after exhausting all other methods of obtaining it without her consent.
 For the formula with which had solved the problem presented by the card was a slight variation from the one which every primary child play ing treasure hunting engages for his code messages A equals one, R equals two. and so on.
 "I Believe You've Got It"
 With the feeling of pleasurable ex- haustion which accompanies task completed. l rammed the discarded | i,,tz rto basket, and wrapped the completed and correct one around "Steve's" card. Then opening the door softly so as to disturb no one, I tiptoed down the hall to the room where knew Lillian was lying awake, keep ing the vigil which she and I shared with Katherine,
 I had no compunction at disturb ing her. for I knew that her regular time for going to sleep was yet a half hour away. I knew also that the knowledge of the solving of the cards jargon would be the best sedative she could have, I guessed that she had worried more than she had let me know over Allen Drake's 1 ineXplicable silence.
 Her voice came challengingly be- 1 fore l had traversed half the dis tance to her door.
 Who's there?" she called softly, and in equally low tones I respond ed, "It's I, Madge!"
 "Whatever--" she began, and then as I hurried into the room, she turn ed on the electric switch. scanned my fnce closely, and exclaimed ju- biliantly-
 "Bless my soul! I believe you've got It."
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turer, aren't you 2"
 "An adventures, you mean May answered. enjoying her own loke. "Yes, I'm an adventures, '
 You're a darling!" he said, then, almost shouting 10 make himself heard. With sudden movement, he drew May close to his side, turned his face and kissed her cheek just below her ear She heard him laugh. tfiumphantly.
 Don't do that again" There was a dangerous sharpness in Mays voice.
 For answer, Dan swung her to- ward him held her close in his arms. and laughed down at her. showing his strong white teeth in grin,
 You know ycu want me to kiss Nou.' he said. You know you do oi-- You know. if asked you to, you'd drive over to Philadelphia with me, today, and he married, wouldn't you?"
 May was speechless with anger,
 "H-how do you get that way" she Easped at Iasr, Why. Wouldn marry you if you were the last man on earth, h,-Even if you didn't belong 10 Carlotta, l wouldn't have you for a gift, I just finished telling her SO"
 She felt his arms relax, and she tore herself away from him.
 If you feel that way about me" he asked sarcastically, "Why have you been making love to me, for the last three days the way you have 9"
 May could see that he really was pu22led-that he really thought she had been asking him 10 make love Ito her.
 "Why-whv," she asked faintly. Have [ been doing that Truly, I didn't know it."
 Was she so anxious to find hus- hand that she unconsciously tried 10 lure all men, she wondered,
 (TO RE CONTINUED
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the room, with a funny. rolling n1ol ement.
 With her hand on the door knob she turned and faced May. "Youll pay for this some day, young wom- an," she said In the tones Of trag- edy queen,
 "Don'e be silly" May said sharply. "As a matter of fact. 1 am going out to meet your precious Dan But not because I'm in love with him, as he probably thinks am He doesn't know H. but he's just due for the raging of his life from me -
 About the way he treats me "" Carlctta asked. signing
 "Ahout you. of course" May told her. From now on I am going to be | sort of combination guardian angel and matrimonial bureau for you-"
 But Carlotta's weak little mouth dropped "You think SO. now" she said. 'I can ace that you really in- tend 10 he a good friend of mine. Fnt Dan has way with women-- He1l get around you somehow" "Noi with me, sweetie," May am swered firmly, I'm in inst the right mood 10 20 out and tell some man or other exactly what I think of his entire sex, They're dead-heats and cheats when 1t comes 10 love-
 She was in apparently high spirits when she greeted Dan SpraEue few minutes later. A bloom of color was in her cheeks-she was radiant How could Dan know that this ra- diance had its inspiration in her anger toward Herbert Waterbury, He tucked her hand Tn his, and they set out with their heads down against the high wind that rolled great waves in from he sea, and swept the spray into their faces,
 "You're my kind of girl, to T" she heard Dams voice exultng, above the sound of the surf. "An adyer-
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Boat eggs uanl light Beat in sppar. NlN aud soft flour. soda, cream of tartar and salt, Add alter uotoJy with milk to first mixture, Beat in melted butter. Put cherries into 9 huttere1 baking dish and bring slowly to the boiling point. Sprrai butter over cherries and bake ia minutes in moderate oven, Ser2a warm with sugar and cream. tCopyrIrht. 1923. NFA Service, Tnc)
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Madge Registers Success In De
 ciphering Code

At Lillians request, l walked to her bed and from the mattress took the card belonging to Steve which we had hidden there. She held out her hand for 1t, and placed 1t in her grasp, watching her face as she again studied It intently.
 T don't know why l should waste time looking al 1t" she said at last, handing 1t to me. I'm a moron when it comes 10 anything like this, You'll have to be the doctor this time. I know this much, however. It's going to be no baby crossword puzzle. pecoding figures into letters Is one thing, but translating letters into figures is something else again. or course my hunch may be wrong. There may be no figures in the whole thing but
 She looked at me, and I finished the sentence for her.
 But I'm sure there are" l said adding dubiously, "lf only l can get hold of them
 If you cant, nobody can do, as Lee Chow would say" Lillian re- turned. q haven't forgotten that stunt you did with that Sumerian character thing
 But don't you see," I argued, using an argument with which l often had disciplined my own vanity over the triumph of which she Just had spoken-that the Sumerian thing was the veriest freak of luck. If I hadn't studied that period with that old antiquarian and If l hadn't possessed his books, I never would have stumbled upon the key to the thing. Dr. Drake could have decoded 1t in one-third the time, If he only had possessed the key upon which l stumbled by accident"
 "You Did a Bang-Up Stunt" q should hope he could have done 1t in one e-sixth," Lillian said a bit caustically, considering that he is one of the greatest code experts in the world. But you are too modest, old thing. You did a hang-up stunt that time, one that Allen Drake would have given a good deal to have pulled off. However, I'm afraid you'll find this a tougher proposi- ton"
 Hours later. near midnight in fact, echoed her prediction as l sat by Dicky's drawing table in his room. and pushed aside a pile of papers, once blank. but now covered with my attempts to solve the mystery of the card. I had invoked algebralc formulas ,geometrical theorems, pro- gressions, calling heavily upon my
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Letter from Leslie Prescott to Ruth
 Burke -- Continued


 Burke -- Continued
 must confess, Ruth, l could not eat much. Everything seemed so strange. I kept wondering what the heavy coats were for. and expecting something new in the way of enter tainment. At last I turned to Mir, Sartoris and remarked:
 And now we arc going to see your geography"
 As I said this there were shrieks of laughter, and MT. Sartoris hand ed check for thrty-one hundred dollars 10 Jack with a bow, It seems this was just the amount they had Wagered on my lack of curiosity. . Bending low over my hand my host said: T hope you will not think me impoItely impertinent, my dear Mrs. Prescott, if 1 ask you in which you are the most lacking, 8 sense of curiosity or a knowledge of geography"
 Jack tossed the check over 10 me with the remark; Here is the money I promised you If you got our friends to accept the invitation to this affair. Surely you hadn't for gotten that Pittsburgh Is an inland city. Now tell us what you really did think"
 "0f course ] didn't forget. I knew when Mir, Sartoris invited us 10 lunch on his yacht that he had some surprise for us, but l said nothing It always irritates you. Jack, when I ask questions about your plans, and I thought Mir Sar- . toris might be the same kind of a man, Why should I he curious enough 10 spoil any surprise that aither my fneu1s or my husband prepare for me-
 . .."Bravo Bravo" said Mrs, Davies. T just took 1t for granted that when you asked me 10 eat with you on your yacht, Mir. Sartoris you meant it" I said blushine, and I knew l would find out in time all about f"
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FABLES ON HEALTH
ON HEAITa---- If You Eat Heartily, Exercise

the lungs, puts spring in the ster and fills one up 10 the brlm with energy and optimism.
 But few people get enough walk Ing exercise, The business man gets up eats breakfast, smokes cigar then takes his automobile or a street car to his office. He sits till noon eats heavy lunch, sits till quitting time, goes home, eats, rides in the car for while, then to bed.
 He may get enough fresh air, but he does not get enough exercise. It's no wonder that so many bust ness men ara dying with diabetes, heart failure, apoplexy and other common ailments.
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Hundreds of years ago contucius,

Hundreds of years ago Contucius the Chinese philosopher, said; Eat sparingly and walk far"
 Wisdom of this statement Is as obvious today as in the days of Con- tucius. Hundreds of ills follow in the wake of heavy eating.
 A stuffed stomach causes heart trouble, which often results In apo pleXy. It clogs the veins with pol son and dulls the brain, Diabetes often is caused from heavy eating.
 However. if one takes exercise part of the Ill effect of overeating is dissipated.
 Walking builds good constitu- ton strengthens the heart, improves
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said she.
 T don't see how you dared do it." exclaimed Peter.
 Little Mrs. Timmy looked puzzled. She was little puzzled. What is 1t you don't see how I dared do" she asked.
 T don't see how you dared make such a dreadful jump when you are carrying q baby in your mouth" said he. Just supposing you had dropped it"
 Huh" exclaimed Mrs. Timny. don't you worry about me drop- ping one of my babies. That is something that just couldn't happen, But even if it could and did happen that I let go, that baby wouldn't be
New Britain herald., 1925-08-12
By EISTER NIAPY

Fraakfast-Orarsc uice hrojlcd bacon. scrambled eggs, graham toast. milk, coffee
 Tuncheor-NsEe salad. toast- cd cheese sandwtches, cherry rud- ding, mIk. tea.
 nlnncr-Neal cltlr,s, scauorcd potatoes, rptterel hos's with greens, molded spinach salad pineapple sherbet. sponec cake, whole wheat break, milk, coffee,
 If the vegetables are carefully chosen and comtined with a simple French dressing child of four may he served the salad.
 The pudding suggested in lunch cen menu should not b. ser ed to children under six years of ase. 4 dish cf steved fruit and plain cookie should be substituted.
 Cherry Pudding
 One cup stoned cherries, cup sugar, cups flour. 'l cup milk, i tablespoon melted butter. eggs, i teaspoon soda, IT. teaspoons cream ak Aartar. 1-s teasrobh salt
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dropped. You have no idea how tightly those babies cling to my neck. He certainly would cling until I could get hold of him again. Well, I've got to get four more of them over there, so mustn't waste any more time"
 With this she once more climbed the old home tree and a few min utes later went sailing across the Laughing Brook with another baby, Peter stayed right there until the last one was safely in the new home. Then Peter hurried away as fast as his legs could take him that he might tell every one he met of the wonderful thing he had seen. Copyright, 1925. by T. ", Burgessl
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