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New Britain herald., 1926-09-24

Her breath caught in her throat, and her heart was beating like a tiny trip-hammer as she opened the door Of the big bright outer office and closed it behind her - closed it between her and the blue-, eyed man.
 She sat down at her desk. It was in bright corner by q window, and on the sill beside her was a red geranium in pot. It was the only spot of gayety and color in the dingy room that scarlet geranium of Honey Lou's.
 What are you giggling to your self about?"
 Honey Lou fairly jumped in her chair at the sound of the high voice close beside her
 It belonged - that high shril voice - to Ann Ludlow, whose un- tidy desk was just behind Honey Lou's orderly one.
 Above it, Ann Ludlow's small impudent face grinned at >her. Ann was the office 'vamp."
 She had worked in the office of the mills for 10 long years. Most of the men in the place, from AL corn, the book keeper, to Jepson. the city salesman, had been suit ors of Ann's at one time or an- other.
 wasn't giggling, was r." Honey Lou asked her, and began to tap rapidly on her typewriter.
 The smile had vanished almost instantly from her face.
 Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their party" she wrote on the type- writer, because she could think of nothing else.
 Her vision was still filled with the face of the man she had just left in the hallway.
 Who was he, she wondered. Was he still standing out there, beside the window?
 A half hour later Honey Lou screwed up enough courage to walk over to the door and look out into the hall . .. He was not there.
 With queer sinking feeling in her heart, she walked back to her desk.
 I'll probably never see him again." she told herself, but it doesn't natter
 She knew that it did matter to her, though. She tried to put the thought of him out of her mind. But she couldn't.
 All afternoon, his face was be- fore her minds eye as she tapped tapped on the little steel keys of her typewriter.
 Do you believe in love at first sight?" she asked Ann Ludlow, as the two of them started down the stairs to the dressing room at five thirty.
 "Oh, sure!" Ann answered cheer fully and without sentiment, And love at last sight, and at second sight. None of it lasts, though. So don't ever kid yourself that it does! Why? Have you fallen for somebody, at last ?"
 Honey Lou shook her brown head.
 Not eactly-I just happened to see a man today that I thought I'd like to know" she said, and Ann could get nothing more from her.
 Honey Lou called Ann Ludlow one Armed Annie" to herself For Ann was the kind of girl who takes anything she can get from a man candy, flowers perfume, books, m agazines-anything
 A new love affair was to her |.
New Britain herald., 1926-09-24
Menus for fife Family
By SISTER MARY

Breakfast - Grapes, cereal. thin cream, rice patties with broiled tomatoes graham toast, milk, cof- fee.
 Luncheon Toasted combina- ton sandwiches, milk. tea, apple dumplings with thin cream.
 Dinner Ham baked in milk, scalloped sweet potatoes and pine apple, buttered spinach, celery and apple salad, baked pears with cream, plain cake, whole wheat bread, n!lk, coffee.
 A scraped beef patty or hroilcd lamb chop should be provided for children under ten years of age for their luncheon or dinner to suhsti- ute the ham suggested in the fam fly dinner menu. If at all possible, small children should have their hearty meal at noon time.
 These toasted sandwiches sug- rested In the luncheon menu will ce lust as popular with, afternoon tea. They should be made quite
New Britain herald., 1926-09-24
CHAPTER 1

CHAPTER 1
 The real life of any woman be- gins with tho moment when she first sees the man she is going to love.
 And so it always seemed to Honey Lou Huntley that her life really began on cold rainy De cember afternoon when the wind went shrieking and .sobbing around the Wallack Fabric mills.
 She came slowly down the nar- TOW iron staircase that led from the offices to the shipping room below.
 As she came she sang aloud - 'Nalencia Where thc oYangn trees perfume the breeze above the sea - forevCr-"
 She was singing to keep up her courage.
 Her voice shook a little. Her lips shook, too, as they formed the words of the lovely song. So did
New Britain herald., 1926-09-24
Quicksands of Love
 Adele GarrisOn's New Phase of
 -Repeldfions Of q Wife

last heady and cventful weeks since Philip Neritzen had given me the entrance into the dramatic world of which l had dreamed vainly for years.
 was all the more abashed be- cause of the consciousness that just before the advent of The famous theatrical produced into my Ii I had given q good deal of romantic and speculative thought 10 Hugh Grantlan1.
 "Td Open shop"
 Nothing so rouecs d woman's imagination as the knowledge that she is yitally necessary in some emergency. With Lillian. I had been instrumental in saving Hugh Grantland from death and dis honored name. Thus I felt that I in part had paid for the signal serv- ice he had rendered me when he rescued my child. During that s.ressful time he had revealed un- consciously the great love he bore me, and ever since he had gone back to China with Lee Chow, his high born Chinese friend who had so long masqueraded as his servant, there had come to me from time to time rare souvenirs of his Oriental trav- els. Curiously carved pades, won dcrful fans, iilmy scarves, heavily embroidered shawls-things to make any feminine heart skip a beat or two-had been sent 10 me with brief messages. 1 could not escape the conviction that they were subtle wooing of me, that the restraint he had for yeaN put upon his affection for me had been loosened by the peril I had undergone for his sake at Tyndan. There was no word in the messages, however, which I or anybody else cou'd possibly construe as indiscreet, and he sent Lillian all most as beautiful things as those which came to me.
 If only l had two or three more friends with devoted but QuiXotic millionaire cavaliers travelling in the Orient" he had once said with a wicked little moue, T wouldn't stay in this advertising copy game. Td open q gift shop and make my ever lasting fortune"
 It was with the remembrance 0 all these things, and romorse for having forgotten them so complete ly that I took out the cablegram and read it.
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New Britain herald., 1926-09-24
Madge Gets a Surprise Cablcgram
 From the Orient

Pretending not to hear Dicky's sneering remark, I walked to my desk, where l always keep loose change, and taking a coin from it. tipped the messenger who had brought me the cablegram, and dis missed him. Then I inclined my head toward my husband with the perfunctory courtesy one would ac- cord the vericst chance acquaint- anCe.
 "Wiu you excuse me 9" l asked.
 When he simply nodded without replying. I guessed that he was too angry for speech He was no more wrathful than l. however, for his contemptuous allusion to Hugh Grantland, the only person from whom a cablegram could possibly have come to me, had infuriated me with the sense of unfairness which the breaking of a promise always gives. After the memorable tor turing time when Hugh Grantland had rescued Junior from the man Wllplll Nfl dNt i'i dI'l iltNI AOi N'h tC kidnap the child, Dicky voluntarily had promised me that he never gain would apply to the former army officer the hateful appellation of Faithful Fido." This had been his invariable name for Major Grantland ever since the secret serv- ice work which Hugh and l shared and which had resulted in a close friendship, an almost brotherly and sisterly relationship between us.
 Madge ReSents Dicky's Jealousy
 Dicky had unscrupulously kept the promise ever since although l think he guesses what I had learned dur ing the past year-that Hugh Grant lands affection for me was anything but brotherly. But, reasoned with the clarity which had come 10 me recently. I could name several wo- men who looked upon Dicky with eyes that not those of sisters. l felt that his evident jealousy was no excuse for him and that there was something common and cheapening both to Dicky and me in his re- sumption of this epithet.
 I tore open the white envelope with hands which were curiously unsteady, for with a mingling of self-reproach and surprise I realized that I scarcely had thought of Hugh Grantland, as true and knighuy a friend as ever woman had, in these
New Britain herald., 1926-09-24

the hand that slid along the iron rail beside her.
 Honey Lou was afraid. Foolish ly dreadfully afraid.
 She was afraid Of Joe Meadows. the shipping clerk. Even though it was broad daylight, and there were men in the shipping room, she was afraid of Joe Meadows.
 She had been afraid of him ever since she had come to the mills six months before and she didn't know why she was.
 Perhaps it was just her instinct that warned her against him. Per haps it was because he always stood too close to her whenever she brought him messages from Old Man Wallack, as she often did. Perhaps it was because of the way he always looked at her with his bold handsome eyes.
 He was looking at her now she came slowly down the iron steps. She could feel his eyes on her as she came across the dusty, gloomy room.
 Here are the orders from MT. Wallack, Joe" she said to him. She was careful not to let her hand touch his when she gave him the papers.
 Without a word he took them. But he did not look at them.
 His eyes followed the slim little figure of Honey Lou as she turned away from him. They never left her until she vanished around turn of the iron staircase.
 Honey Lou was more than good to look at. She had the dangerous gift of real beauty.
 Although she was a little thing, she was truly gorgeous to look at. Beautiful in a glowing sort of way that made her positively shine in the musty dusty old offices of the mills.
 She shone above the shabbness of the place exactly as star might blossom out above a smoke stack. There was something bright and shining about her brown eyes that were fecked with gold and brown hair with little feathery gold ends.
 Moreover. Honey Lou had some thing besides her beauty. Some thing that would have. made peo- pie look at her, even if she had been as ugly as sin, itself!
 She had the thing We call pep" She had charm and q lovable gay ety. She said funny things without trying to be funny. She was sugar but sugar with a dash of red pepper! That was Honey Lou.
 All the other girls at WallaeAs liked her.
 They liked her because she did not try to "upstage" them, even if she was Old Man Wallack's secre- tary.
 They liked her because she called him Grumpy" to his face when he was In one of his tempers - and because she never carried tales to him.
 They liked her because of the cheerful slang that rolled from her lips like length of silk richly, smoothly and softly.
 And Honey Lou liked everybody at Wallack's, in return. That is, she liked everybody but Joe Meadows, the shipping clerk.
 It was at the top of the iron stairs that Honey Lou first laid eyes on Jack Wallack.
 She did uot know then that he was Old Man Wallacks only son
 e
New Britain herald., 1926-09-24

Danny Meadow MoISe was sorry for Pumper the Bittern. Of course, he was delighted to find out who it was that made those noises that sounded like driving stake and pump ing water in an old-fashioned wood en pump. But just the same he was sorry for Pumpcr the Bittern. You see, Bumper went through such a performance while he was making those noises that it looked as if he must be most uncomfortable. He seemed to work SO hard to get those sounds out that when he had finish ed he looked sick and tired. So Danny was sorry for him.
 What does he do it for?" asked Danny of Peep the Least Sandpiper.
 He does it because he is in love-" chuckled Peep. He does it because he's in love and he thinks he's sing ing"
 Not really" cried Danny.
 Yes really" replied Peep.
New Britain herald., 1926-09-24
BY DIR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Journal of the American Medical Association and of Hygeia
 the Health Magazine

Medical Association and of Hygeia
 the Health Magazine While the child is sick with diphtherla, no one should enter it's room, except the attendant and the physician. The room should be sunny and as far removed from the rest of the household as possible.
 Rugs, unnecessary furniture and draperies should be removed to make easier the cleaning of the room after the sickness is over. The dishes from which the patient eats are to be boiled in water immediately after they have been used, and used only by the patient during the course of the illness.
 Red linen and towels should be boiled in water immediately after their removal and then left in the sunlight for drying. They should be thoroughly washed and handled by the laundress only after they have been boiled.
 May Cough Considerably
 The patient who is sick with diph- theria is likely to cough a great deal because of the obstruction on the throat by the membrane. and he may suffer with diphthcria or other irritation of the nose and ears. All discharges from the patient should be collected on pieces Of gauge or old linen. These should be burned.
 Books and toys used by the pa tient should also be burned after recovery, and everyone entering the patients room should wash his hands thoroughly before entering and after leaving the room, and should rewash the face and hands carefully before eating.
 Formerly, the room of the patient suffering with diphtheria was filled ormaldehyde, which it was thought would fumigate or disnfect the sur roundings. Such things arc as use full as q potato in the pocket against rheumatism. or the left hind foot of a rabbit for conjuring lady luck
 Boiling and Washing
 Nowadays. the bedding used by the patient and all soiled linen are boiled and washed. Mattresses and pillows which have been soiled and | cannot be sterilizcd or boiled, arc burned. Walls, floors, woodwork and | furniture are washed with soap and 1 water, and the room itself thor oughly stunned and aired for at least l 24 hours.
 Sometimes person who rccovers from diphtheria. or even those who | may never have had the disease, | have the bacteria of diphtheria in their throats. These persons may infect others.
 It has been found that the re- moval of the tonsils and adenoids l helps to rid the throat of diphtheria | germs, and also removes the danger 1 of infection from these tissues.
 In addition, chemicals have been applied with varying success in some instances. The person who carries diphtheria germs is a menace to everyone he meets and should do everything possible to rid himself of the germs.
New Britain herald., 1926-09-24
SVatch out. He's got a long bill,
 and sharp one"

Doesn't he know he isn't sing ing?" inquired Danny
 Just what is singing" asked Peep in his turn,
 Danny thought over all the differ ont kinds of singing he had heard and then he decided that that wasn't
New Britain herald., 1926-09-24
Sesqui- Centennial This Year

When the Cetennial Exhibition was held in Philadelphia in 1878, Lydia F. Pinkham, a woman in Lynn, Mass. was just beginning ito market her root and herb medicine. Her first large order was for eight cen dollars worth.
 Philadelphia is now celebrating the 150th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. In Lynn the Lydia F. Pinkham Medicine Company occupy six buildings in the manufacture of their root and herb medicine.
 Nearly 6,0oo,o0o bottles of Lydia E, Pinkham's Vegetable Compound were sold last year.
New Britain herald., 1926-09-24

Toasted Combination Sandwiches
 Three large sweet green peppers. l-2 pound mild cheese, l-2 tea spoon salt Is teaspoon pepper. IA teaspoon paprika, IA teaspoon mustard, bread, butter.
 Pour boiling water over peppers and let stand five minutes. Drain and rub off thin covering. Remove stems and take out seeds and white pith. Put through food chop per with cheese. Mix seasonings thoroughly and add to pepper and cheese mixture, Work with a fork until perfectly blended. Cut bread about l-4 inch thick and butter evenly and lightly Spread half the pieces of bread with the mixture, press remaining slices firmly on prepared pieces and toast in a hot oven. Serve hot
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New Britain herald., 1926-09-24

A speedom,ter for a locomotive has been devised It employs a magneto generator, driven from one of the engine wheels, with an indi- cator in tPe cab.
New Britain herald., 1926-09-24
THE QUEER SINGER
By Thornton W. Burgess

That which is harsh to you or me To love may sweet and tender be.
 Danny Meadow Mouse.
New Britain herald., 1926-09-24

for steam locomotives, was begun in 1880.
New Britain herald., 1926-09-24
Your Health How to Keep It.
 Causes of Illness

POINTS TO OBSERVE
 Editors Note: This is the fourth Of a series of five articles on diph- theria. Tomorrow: Diphtheria in the United States.
New Britain herald., 1926-09-24
Toasted Combination Sandwiches

The next story: "A Heron Cousin. ?
New Britain herald., 1926-09-24

It was at the top of the iron stairs that Hcney Lou first laid eyes on Jack Wallack.
 She did uot know then that he was Old Man Wallack's only son
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-05-26
Sale Of Poppies
pv Legion Post

annual sale Of peoples by the
- I've of the American Legion
n' auxiliary comes at an oppor-
s s.,s. time this year, for it is on Me-
WI ~, Day that these emblems
nlO' "a he worn. The last three days
; sno .s;s week. Thursday, Friday and
Of ln,s will be Poppy Days in
Sa!u i;usr To appreciate fully the
J oaiu good being accomplished
reas the American Legion Aux
i tIuv noppy program which elimi-
mary tbe commercial poppy and
na lss;a that all peoples sold by the
p,,,arv be made by the service
AuAm a. their families. one must go
men .he hospitals and see the men
lnp In one hospital three men
AZ a. the little red flower. one a
s sSnS man who could DO only so
u unuS work, the second man with
ssnd 60 crippled that he could carry
Ia aa,, work Just so far, turning 1t over
.ne .ss third man to finish. In anoth-
10 isnsnital the blind nan fashions
Ct ..ssct peoples. In still another
Fir ore men whose minds are
lse s..sred and who have only one
sna'' ,bat of taking their own lives.
Mea, men have had their minds
i i,ni.rscted from this obsession
4 a.sonch the poppy program.
% ~s.ongh the American Legion Aux
Many Poppy Program $4,000 was
n sid in 1925 to the needy and dis us :.
pps,od service men and women in the
aunt a.untrv for making poppies.
cV To many ex-service men the cent
,,M for making peoples is the first
p nOrev earned since the war. No
\ . rr work accomplished with the
sorny profits can excel this service
!. npt he disabled which brings to
! !, .ssr, the realization that they are
.rain able to tage their places
smons the wage earning citizens In
! 1 1ss;. the first year of the American
legion I,s Auxiliary poppy program.
aver six million poppies were sold
1 nv the American Legion and Auxii-
,.,v for this great work. OF this
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-05-26

dangerously chilling effect. The right
way to provide the eggs with moist
ure is to gently lift up the nesting
material facing you, and to let little
water run to the base of the nest.
When the hen returns to the nest
there will, in due course, be a humid
condition Of warm air about the eggs,
and the latter will absorb the nee
essary moisture in a natural manner.
The present month is a good one
in which to incubate the eggs of Co.
chin Bantams, as the resultan.
chicks will, as far as feathering is
concerned, be superior to those hatch
ed earlier in the year. The matured
birds may be too late for the forth
coming, show season, but they will,
If rightly bred, hold their own dur
ing the show season of 1927.
The moment the sex of Bantam
chickens can be determined, separate
the males from the females, as they
will thrive better apart. Also avoid
running birds of different ages and
sizes together when they have left
the brood hens, otherwise the bigger
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-05-26

number 100000 were made in the
hospitals by the disabled: 1000. 600
We're made by the members of the
Auxiliary units. and It is estimated
that 100000 were purchased from
commercial firms. In 1926 the com
mercial poppy is being practically
eliminated. in fact only one or two
OF the Legion Departments will sell
the commercial poppy this year, and
all other departments will sell either
the poppies made by the disabled
veterans or the peoples made BY the
units. The profits from the sale OF
peoples under the guidance sof the
American Legion Auxiliary AMOUNT
ed to 100000 in 1925 ali Of which
was expended in service work for
the service men and their families
by the Legion Posts and Auxiliary
Units OF the country.
The Gardiner Legion Post and
auxiliary are using the necessary
portion Of the funds received by
them from the sale of peoples for
relief work in our own district, and
at Christmas time certain sum is
expended for veterans in hospitals.
so the relief work is local as we'll
as national,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-05-26
WINTHROP

Thursday will see the opening of
another new store in Winthrop-the
Winthrop branch of the Malcolm and
Dyer Co., of Augusta. Right in the
heart Of the town. this new store
will be prepared to handle all calls
for hardware, plumbing, heating and
roof supplies. A new Socony pump
has been installed and here gas and
oil will be sold. An interesting fea-
ture of the stores opening, a feature
that will continue for three days,
will be the demonstration of paint
uses. Samples will also be given
away. This demonstration will con-
tinue for the last three days of the
week and will be under the direc-
ton Of experts from the Patterson
Sargent Co.. makers of B. P. S. paint
which will be featured at the store.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-05-26

GENERALIZATION, others are also in.
fiuential. such as the reduction In
rent and taxes. uearness to sources
OF raw material, and so on. The
outstanding example of the opera.
ton Of these forces Is the movs.
ment Of the cotton mills to the ru.
raj districts of the South. Califor.
mia ia already dotted with small
Industrial plants. and It is not i'm.
probable that many of the great
manufactures OF the Atlantic Sea.
board and the Middle West will
care for their growth IN small unit
plants, each devoted to the produc.
ton Of certain standardized parts.
Increasing the Farmers Earning
Capacity.
"Under present conditions the
farmers family usually has no al.
tentative between working on the
farm and going to the city. which
means that either the family as a
unit will be uneconomically en-
ployed for the greater part of the
year land. therefore, poorer than
II should be) or else 1t must be
broken up. But. II industrial de.
Capitalization takes place on a
wide scale. countless farmers fam
lilies will have the choice of a va
riety of occupations and will be
able to realize the full measure of
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-05-26
Poppy Sale Today

Beginning this morning, the mem
bers of the Auxiliary of the Frank E.
Goodrich Post of the American Leg
ion will be around to sell you one Of
the Official peoples of the Amer
lean Legion Auxiliary. Be sure that
the poppywhich is offered you bears
the label of the Legion and Auxili-
airy. None other Is Official. Re-
member that every cent you pay Is
for welfare work and that the local
profits are to go to the Hallowell
Citizens Legion Fund which money
will be used locally. Every poppy
brings to you twofold message:-
Buy Mel stand for service. l en-
abled one cent to be earned by dis
heartened service men in the hos
pital who needed it, and all you pay
for me goes for service for those
for whom the war is not yet over.
Buy Me!
Wear Mel represent the sacrifi-
cial blood of the men who fell on
Flanders Field. l am a memorial to
all who died in service. In rever-
ence and understanding, Wear Me!