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last time. She let the coat fall.
She reached for the Mother Goose
book and once again turned all
the pages. waiting with anguish
for his happy exclamations. wait
while he pointed to the big
black cat and looked right up
into her face with an impish
Meow
She put her cheek down against
his. She whispered. 'oh, darling
baby--darlinR thing.
Then quietly she brushed his
hair, holding him before the mir
ror that he might reioice in his
image. Quietly she put on the
smart little coat and the over.
seas cap. She held him only q
moment and kissed him.
She went back to the living
room, leaving Billie with the
nurse.
"Ey" said she dumbly. .won't
you get into the machine first?
Let Ulla take Billie. Give him
chance to get acquainted"
Are these his auitcases?'' asked
Mullins sharply.
Yss-and ths box has all the
toys =
Il guess we won't need to
bother with the toys. He'll have
plenty
There are special treasures
therehe loves them-the older
the better. especially that box Of
spoons and his doll. He'd miss il
bitterly.
A dolll Well, guess my son
doesn't need doll"
He picked up the suitcases.
shooed the twins and the older
boy before him.
Take his toysi' said EVELYN.
spots Of red on her cheeks. and
don't be so bumptious. Frank
Mullins! You haven't got Uncle
Fred's money YETI
She turned-upset--to Roen: 'I'd
like to thank you. Roen, but
know you don't want me to. /
think it's small in you to
hegrudge me my own baby-my
baby 81
Roen answered softly, unable to
look in her cousins face. s.Don't
thank me. Ev. love Billie. AS
much as you do. Ev. let Ulla
stay until he gets accustomed to
the change. She has wonderful
way with him.
We can't afford the fancy
wages you pay. Ron. We've three
other children to consider"
She's paid Ia advance for six
weeks Let her stay that long.
Good-by. Ev."
CTo De Continued Monday)
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them in their box. taking her
hands gently: ''Roen, listen. YOU
can find another child. You can
get some little boy who has no
home at allan infant that Won
can make truly yours. In q few
months you will be loving ii
greatly = ?"
She looked at him with wide,
quiet eyes. Not needing, She said
starkly.
This Ii Thursday. Then have
two days. Mark, I'm not going 10
bear this. I'm not able to bear it,
And abruptly, like that. got up
and flew to the door.
He sprang after her, frightened.
But when he stopped her with
his arms; when he said, irnplur-
ingly: "Rcen, stay here. Reason
It out. Don't let yourself get des.
perate. Don't 90 away ike
this"
4 am not threatening. Mark. /
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1T 81 away Win ulLn 10"
He walked back and forth. Sud.
denly he grabbed up the telephone
and called Frank Mullins.
Miss Ross tells me you want
, the baby tomorrow. Why didn't
you notify me so that l could get
release signed? Saturday after.
HoOn-none OF the officers are
around. It's nearly 5 now
"A pause that tolled off mis-.
cradle suspense.
You didn't think you needed
any release? Why--certainly!
She's had possession Of the child.
She's responsible to the State for
him until notice Is given that
the parents have claimed him.
I'll get the thing fixed up--ch.
In q week"
He put aup the receiver quietly,
aware Of her glowing. grateful
look. And, of her hand reaching
out and Selling his In fervor.
They won't come tomorrow,
Mark. OH She laughed and
flung back her head \
And in the meantime yonal
fight 1t to the finish. YOull
save him for me-"
"Roen." he began
Don't try to influence me,
Mark. It Just can't be DONE"
But you say they have q nice
place? And money enough. Roen
they are the parents. They
have the first right. Don't break
yourself"
She shut her eyes. Sitting there
mute and pale.
THE boy would be with his
brother and sisters, Roen.
He is well with me. Mark.
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nodded to boy she had met. and
then was dancing with him.
He talked Of golf in a husky
voice while he danced. and then
left her to mix himself . high.
ball. Groups here and
there chatted together, or men
and women sat in attitudes Of ten.
sion, speaking rapidly and IN low
voices, that proclaimed that they
were about to be lovers, or had
ceased to be.
Men with decorations and for.
eign faces, diplomats, officers, old
men with shrewd eyes who looked
as il they ruled q bank with each
finger, women of all ages tired
and wise, with seeking. restless
faces.
Carlotta had disappeared. Sally
stole away. She didn't want to
dance now. She felt uncomfort.
able in this elaborate place. She
passed a long refectory table,
where cold lobster, pate de fois
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am only telling you a thing, That
am not able to bear it."
She seemed not surprised that
he held her in his arms; that he
kissed her and begged hnskity
Let me help you rear It
let me come and help you."
Not surprised or affected. she
smiled mutely at him. She re.
peated: Don't be worried. You
thought ! was threatening" she
shook her head and walked softly
to the door with him.
She went in and lay face down
on her bed. She said to herself:
Two days. They will come in two
days"
Friday and Saturday she dun
so to work. She Swallowed TIE
baby. drinking in each look and
word.
In the evening Mark came and
begged her to ride with him get 4
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THyELYN were a,negligee Of blue
~ satin. She was very happy and
showed Roen proudly through the
new house white bungalow set
in the hills OF San Mateo with
quite garden. And Uncle Fred.
who was nearing so. and ailing.
sitting In q great wicker chair
with q canopy over his head.
Evelyn played the grand lady like
the priTna donna in a play.
IL the house a gift to you?''
asked Roer.
cts Uncle Fred's house" Eve
lvn answered evasiveiy. I'm so
disappointed you didn't bring
Billie. We're ready to take him
back. Roen, any time you want.
For d long, staggering moment
Roen looked in her cousins eyes.
She said quietly, That's awfully
nice of you, Ey!"
Evelyn turned crimson. She
snapped her teeth. suppose
Won begrudge me my own child!
/ suppose you're sorry we've the
means now to keep him. You act
like 1t. Frank said you even
threatened to keep him.
Roen became crafty. But she
did not master the break in her
voice.
that caught bitterly. tOf course
YOU want him. Ev! or course I'm
glad you're fixed so we'll"
Evelyn smiled. wen come
and, get him tomorrow-we might
lust as we'll"
Roen said abruptly: Jackie
and Virginia are going to Europe
this summer. They want me to
20 with them"
They do! Then | guess you're
glad to have Billie off your hands?
/ wonder why you were putting
up d bluff"
said Roen. opening her purse
and dAubing powder all over her
face: You've treated me very
I'M / don't mind this. But it's
shameful in you to jeopardize
Billie. And why? I've cared well
for him this eight months. You
are insulting in snatching him
back so cruellyi'
with scarcely a glance she babe
her cousin goodby. Riding home
she listened to the clank Of the
car wheels on the rails monoto-
nous. affecting sound She
thought, III went too strong. /
gave myself awayr
She went to Mark. He wished
to say; You can't win; end it
quickly. You're only prolonging
IN agony
But he looked In her storming.
wildly appealing eyes: heard her.
desperate Tomorrow. Mark! /
wont let them in. Mind you
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NOIO Go On With The Story

A WEEK later Sally looked
"A back as If she were looking
back across year.
She had unearthed a calendar.
stuck it up over her dressing
table. to, watch the days go by
until Jerry returned.
He had said: .s'I don't write let
tiers. / can't--besides, no letter
could tell you what I feel I'll
wire you if anything happens"
When she begged him for just
Q. word. he shook his head: mo.
Ill save up until / get back. 1t
will be all right. Just think Of
me once, in a while-if you can. Z,
Than he had gone. waving his
hand, while she stood watching,
feeling lonely as II for the first
time she had learned the meaning
OF loneliness.
Time--it went so fast some
times. but SO slowly when you
were waiting, really waiting, for
something. With Carlotta Brooke.
she filled every minute Of the
day. yet she seemed to herself to
be always waiting. She went to
tea, luncheon. dinner. played a
beginners game Of golf. watched
Soma crack tennis PLAYERS at the
Casino.
And people -she could remem-
Der more faces than names,
though even these made scarcely
an impression on her now. tShe
was glad the story Of ! her
upbringing in France had got
about. 1T saved her from explain-
ing why she didn't play bridge,
vipgt ct nn. or know any of the
things one was supposed to know.
But in that week there was
only one thing, she had really
enjoyed doing. She asked Car
lotta about Jerry's aunt.
Mrs. Harrington? Never heard
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ing with sudden frankness, ''unless
it's Adrian Martin"
He gave a quick glance why
run away from Adrian MaRtin?
Don't you like him?"
II haven't met him yet. don't
want to meet him."
He's not such bad fellow.
"oh, suppose men might like
him.
He has some reason for think
ing women do also. His three ex-
wives could furnish excellent testi-
monials."
She laughed. "You must be Z
good friend of his"
81 am. I'm his best friend"
"Really?"
"Yes. You see. am Adrian
Martin
CHAPTER XIX
After A moments bewiI6ereG
stare, Sally gave q short laugh Of
embarrassment.
Go Be Continued Monday)
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AMUSEMENT
PARKS

TlHE very life Of an amusement
park depends on its patron.
age by girl and boy sweethearts,
asserts Homer Croy in an article
in this weeks Liberty. ''The
thing that makes the amusement
parks such q success and they
are growing almost as fast as the
movies not the good honest
burghers who get Ia their cars
on q hot holiday and roll away to
the park to cool off; it is not the
overworked father and the kitch.
emitted mother off for a holiday
but Jack and Jill off to have q
good time. =
Actinotherapy Is the name given
to the treatment Of disease BY
Light rays,
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the faults and fangs Of others very young people viii
be handicap them through m for time they
faultfnding others could be better improving them
selves!
Personality is 80 per being at your best!
we all at best would all be wonderful in
ways!
Elimination is the perfection Eliminate every quality
in yourself that you would dislike frank
criticizing yourself in criticizing others
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HOUSEHOLD
HINTS
Picture CIeaning

y n d . EI a.
During the spring-cleaning oper-
ations II Is advisable to examine
the backs Of all pictures. for IL
they have become even slightly
. broken they viii let In the dust,
and pictures will never look clean
and bright II the inside Of the glass
y Is dusty. II this has happened,
strip off the back cover. remove
the boards, take the glass out, dust
the picture, clean the glass
thoroughly on both sides. replace,
nail UP again, and gum on fresh
sheet OF thick brown paper or card
board. II YOU value your oil paint
ings have them revarnished BY an
expert in the art when they re-
uuire It.
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just which faults should eliminate and which good qualities
should improve
What think feel when you you really
are!
No matter how amable BE- in when
alone feelings those that ceyery
hbed among Others nothing less than hypocre!
II who prides herself being frank" be
that frank at saying the pleasant helpful things
feel in the huul criticng things YOU saw
noticed that trait Of gossip the wndward
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The knowledge Test for
Times Readers

4 What is meant BY denatured alcohol?
What degree the abbreviation j. d. represent?
s. What is meant by ode facto" government?
T. What you associate with Cressda
MAT is the meaning Of the phrase Davy Jones locker"
How do the members Of the Fascist greet each other?
4. What State is called the Diamond State 4"
Find the which best fits:
s. Poet
g.. Actress.
10. Pugiist.
IL. Explorer.
10. Sculptor
Is. Anarchist.
(oe Cans George Barnard Teasda Goldman
Who wrote:
Il. "CaN Of the Wild"
is. sThe EgOist."
49, "Barchester Towers"
~. "The Ambassadors
See Mondays paper to verify your results.
Answers to yesterdays test:
II Rudyard Kiping d Hugh WalpoIe. 81 Stephen Crane
Charles Lamb Thomas Hardy Walter Scott II Charles
Dickens From the O the plant 81 Palm Sunday
TO- Albany H. John Philip Sousa H. Mediterranean and Red
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Lawranc designed Lndberghs motor l6 shoulder
insigna for colonel III the u 81 Army silver eagle ~
FaseThe " s. Ambassador 70 Great Britain AlanOn HouRh
ton - TrueByrd flew the first apans to the North Pcls
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Life, Love and Adventure Are the Lot
Of an Obscure Girl in
High Society.
Read This First.

sally Marsh e New York with thousand and
education
nr deal and SheVin, shreWd
introduce
will give him Of
dictates to
oVes and will
Through
pays tor Mrs. Brooke her cottage Newport
brother, Mark
g an ugly little sail Jerry
attractive
wealthy. Sally Tubby
discovers secretly or
terest Shevln Sally wishes
promising letter. She
mas feeling that she has gotten herself
Wsles invites Sally board his yacht she goes bathing
makes violent
realizes she cannot reach shore
about her but hasn't
he win make somehow plans the
realizes
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We Are Living Longer

EIGURES that living longer average, the
Of today look forward to living eight longer
Khan he could reasonably anticipate 1870 rule,
can expect four more years Of life than
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By FAY KING

By FAY KING
ONE the stations footing Broadway Londons
frank honest inventory your qualities and
faiings?
What type of really?
Only your self may know that absolutely
Clever words and clever actions always disguise true motives
and inner feelings
We all improvement good idea for all
to occasionally into conference with ourselves and figure out
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FURNISHING THE HOME
Conducted for The Star
BY ELIZABETH sTETsON AND GENEvIEvE HENDRICKS

nearly always preferable to figured
ones. Measure your window openings
carefully, then allow a few inches
three or four-at the top TO make a
casing for your rod and also Il heading
to finish 1t off.
At the bottom allow enough for a
good sized hem or finish the end of
the curtain with a fringe If it is suit
able for your material. The sewage
on the sides should be removed and
the edges hemmed by hand.
Leave Room at Top.
At the top allow about one and one
quarter to two inches for a heading.
then make a line of stitching across
your goods by hand or machine to in
close your rod, turn under the rough
edge and make another line of stitch
ing. Hang two fun widths of the
average net to the usual sized double
hung window. A good grade of mar
QuiSite in cream or ecru always makes
a very attractive appearance.
For the dainty cottage type of cur
tains you proceed in exactly the same
manner, except that a ruffle of the
same material as the curtain is usu-
ally sewed to the edges of the two
curtains where they meet in the cen
ter and across the ends. The tie
backs are also trimmed with a ruffie
where one is used on the curtains.
Wolfe, organdy. silk marquiSette,
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Francisco board that two steamboats,
have had to be chartered for the trip.
The boats are the Princess Alice and
the Princess Charlotte Of the Cana
dian Pacific Line. Reservations on
the Princess Alice have already been
completely filled.
The trip will occupy 10 days. The
party will leave Seattle the evening OF
August IS. At Victoria a two-hour
stop will be made. At Vancouver,
British Columbia, there VIII be six
hours Of sightseeing. From Puget
Sound the party will go by way of the
inside passage through the straits.
avoiding the open ocean. with stop
at Albert Bay and visit there to an
Indian village famous the world over
for It's totem poles. Stopping again
at Prince Rupert, there will be q IS.
hour tour Of the interior. Further
stops will be made along the coast at
Wrangell, Juneau and Ketchikan.
The party will penetrate as far as
Skagway, the starting point Of the
gold rush Of 1896. Here, following
the path of the gold hunters, the WISH
tors will CROSS the Alaskan Rockies
into the northwest territory of Canada,
where they will visit the famous
mountain glaciers. 1t is expected that
the party will also inspect the large
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BY ELIZABETH STETSON.
Net Curtains.

As CLOTHES make the man., so
draperies make the room-that Is,
If they do not mar it instead. This
is the statement of a very simple fact,
but one whose significance is not
always fully grasped.
Walk into a vacant house and see
how bare and lifeless the rooms
appear. If this same house were
harmoniously draped it would at once
take on the air of home ana seem
inviting. That is why so many COM
NAMES which build houses for specu-
lation have the windows curtaiheo
before offering the houses for sale.
They understand this difference In
terms Of business value.
we have followed the various his
torical styles of furnishing and de-
scribed the general appearance OF
such rooms and the types of their
draperies. If one can call in deco
rator and have her carry out the en-
tire plan, it is very easy to follow one
of these styles in our WINDOW treat
ment But the majority OF people
have to be their own decorators ana
as such must know how to make
simple and yet attractive draperies
which are in keeping with the archl-
tectural style of their houses and the
furnishings of their rooms.
Some Simple Methods.
We are taking up here few simple
methods of curtaining the average
window The saying that slmpiclty
is always best is never more clearly
toI in tho or 0Td-
peries for the home, fortunately Tor
our nocketbooks The first thing to
consider after you have chosen the
color scheme for your room is tne
material which you wish to use. III
YOU feel that you must have curtains
which will last a number OF seasons
you must be sure to select something
sunfast, or at least a color which
will not show the bleaching effect of
strong sunshine.
AS to texture, remember that the
same general rule of proportion applies
to the draperies as well as to the fur
niture. If your room has rather
heavy, substantial appearance you
must not use a very light, delicate lace
or net at the windows.
On the other hand, if your home is
of the late eighteenth century, or
"neo classic" type and your furniture
straight, tapering or slightly curved
legs. you should not drape your win
dows with heavy meshed nets or case
ment cloths The general spirit of
the room must harmonic through its
details.
For glass curtains there are two
simple methods of draping, straight
curtains which hang from a rod set
slightly inside or on the face of the
window jamb and those of the more
informal type, which also hang
straight from the rod. but are caught
back at each side part of the way
down.
Always Appropriate.
The straight net curtains are always
appropriate and always in good taste,
whereas those which are tied back to
each side are suitable only to a Geor-
gian or colonial house or a small home
of the cottage type. There are GER
tain rooms, especially in the country,
which look far better without any net
curtains at the windows at all.
There is something quite dramatic
and effective in the setting of the
overdrapery against the bare window.
pane. But usually city and suburban
life requires some kind of yelling over
the glass windows as a screen against |
the outside world. Plain nets are |
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REALTORS TO TOUR
ALASKA IN SUMMER
San Francisco Board Will Be
Leader of Excursion Following
Annual Convention.

Alaska. LAND Of the midnight
sum-" will be one of the vacation
grounds open to members of the Ma
tional Association of Real Estate
Boards following the coming annual
convention Of the association at Seat
tie, Wash, opening August 10. A
steamboat tour of the Alaskan water
ways, with stopovers at Victoria and
Vancouver, on Puget Sound; Albert
Bay, Prince Rupert, katchikan,
Wrangell, Juneau and Skagway, has
been organized under the leadership
of the San Francisco Real Estate
Board, Immediately to follow the close
of the convention.
So great a response has already been
made to the invitation of the San
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salmon canneries that dot the Alaskan
coast.
The San Francisco Real Estate
Board Glee Club will accompany the
party and furnish music for the trip.
The San Francisco board Is planning
a number of entertainment features
for its guests aboard ship. Ward Cox,
San Francisco Real Estate Board, 156
Montgomery street. San Francisco, is
chairman Of arrangements.
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this style of curtain. valance made
Of the same material Is placed across
the top and trimmed with one or two
rows of ruffies.
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dotted Swiss and many other light
materials can be used in this manner
to give a charming effect. Often,
when overdarperies are not used with
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-05

Grasshoppers fried in lard with
cloves or garlic are eaten by people
in some parts of the Near East.
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INDIANS IN OUTBREAK.
warriors" Stage Battle in Chicago
Poolroom.

CHICAGO. March 5 CF).--An Indian
outbreak was included among events
featuring Chicago's ninetieth birthday
anniversary yesterday.
Called to a poolroom to quell a dis.
turbance, the police found one Indiau
with a broken nose and arrested two
others
Evening star., 1927-07-30

clad dynamiters will be called In to
blow out" the flame with a heavy
charge of explosives at its base.
Evening star., 1927-07-30
BEDTIME STORIES
BY THORNTON
W. BURGESS

the climbing didn't open the door
Little Miss Curiosity climbed down
again. Then she began scratching at
that door. Her toenails were sharp.
she made quite a noise. Mother
Brown went to the window to see
what it was all about.
well, well, well"' exclaimed Mother
Brown and hurried to open the door.
Little Miss Curiosity gravely walked
in. She went straight to the kitchen.
Then she sat up and begged. OF
course Mother Brown couldn't under
stand a word she said, but she under
stood perfectly what she meant.
Mother Brown got her a cookie, Little
Miss Curiosity stopped talking. She
seized the cookie. She was perfectly
happy now. AS soon as she had eaten
the cookie she went to her old place
behind the stove. There she curled
up and took a nap. BY and by she
decided that she wanted to go to
her new home. so she went to the
kitchen door and scratched again.
Mother Brown opened the door. Out
ran Little Miss Curiosity and scamp
cred around the corner of the house
straight to her new home under the
porch. From that time on. whenever
she wanted a cookie, or bit of cake,
or just to make a friendly call, she
went to the kitchen door and
scratched. She had learned to
scratch until some one came to open
the door.
Copyright. 1927
Evening star., 1927-07-30

Vassar is inviting mothers to its
School of Euthenics.
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here. The huge gasser blew itself in
last night with roar and vibration
sufficient to shake every building in
the vicinity.
The well, known as the Rio Bravo
Settegast B.5, ignited also as soon as
it came in under an estimated pres
sure of $500 pounds to the square
inch. The flow was set at 50,000,000
cubic feet a day. The steel derrick
soon melted.
No one was injured as a shower of
rock warned the crew engaged III
pulling casing.
While a battery of boilers was as
sembled in an attempt to smother the