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and she broke it to go with the boss nephew.
You claim you hate the wild pace of the Jazz
houndS-then what are you glooming about?"
I'm disillusioned," affirmed Mr. Boomershine
pathetically. It confess that hearing your
friend from primitive points in the Ozarks
I had formed a picture of a NICE quiet girl
whose ideas of fun were limited, maybe to
freside conversation and the family album"
And can tell something else you formed
retorted Cecilia. "You formed various vowels
and consonants on stationery bought during q
sale at store near our Office building. Don't"
she tartly ordered, as Mr.. Boomershine agon-
lied to his feet, "argue anything to the con-
trary! That day you lodged out of the ele-
vator got off at the second floor and watched
you go into the office of the Friendship Bureau,
and after you left, for q mere So a plump
little Cupid told me all.
las consequence" she continued merci-
leSsly, II, too, correspondent with Miss Reagin
and finally persuaded her to come to the CITY,
Modestly, was sure she was my sister under
the epidermis, and would Succumb to the temp
taton Tor pleasures; and now it looks like she's
going to succumb to something else-Tommy
DunbarS plea for wedlock. I warned you the
Ozark Mountains were bounded on the north
by a question mark.
MY last paragraph" she vocally punctuated,
concerns my vacation at mothers in the
suburbs where I took a fancy to raise some
dahliaS, and want to say right here and now
there is nothing in the world as wonderful as q
nice big dahlia unless it's big nice dahlia
I've got mothers front yard full of them
I always did maintain that If a person liked
dahlias there couldn't be anything radically
wrong with him or her, and consequently I'm
going to agree to your proposal of marriage,
voiced few moments after cease speaking
provided you invest in a bungalw out in the
suburbs, Duy chickens for the back and let
me have dahlias for the front Mine, truly. il
lonely heart, and feel that in time we can
establish family album with snapshots of
acrobatic little children. Now, dearest, where's
my fond echo?"
Check" grinned Marcus B. Boomershine
Copyright 193O)
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ssIonely Hear, Please Wy1te. %
Continued from Fourteenth PuOe

Continued from Fourteenth Page
In Beulahs land the dahlias bloomed and n
warm friendship doomed
Cecilia Dunning, oStensibly, became worried
over her boy friends constant contrivinR to
keep away from waxed floors cover charges
hat checkers and the weekly most amazing,
most Stupendous, all-talking, all-singing. all
dancing film epic of the year.
REULAH-a slim mountain elf-came; saw
her dear correspondent and never con-
quered her curiosity to acquire all facts major
and minor, relative to the great glittering city.
its lobster palaces and dens of jazz Take
me-, she requested with pleading orbS Ito see
everything, Marcus, please"
Marcus, briefly, did, but not briefly He went
over the same weary rounds he had so many
times foxtrotted and gourmandzed with the
typical product Of the jazz-mad age. Beulah
within several weeks, disdained to refer to old
zeke, the Plymouth Rocks or the dahlias. and
became an apt pupil Of the nocturnal electrics
Miss Cecilia Dunning bobbed up one day. at
apartment to find that young gentleman nurs-
ing headache and grievance. "You ought
TO be happy" she denounced severely. "You
had date last night with Beulah, I hear
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80 Point,
"a Sun god.
IS Profit.
SO Periods Of time.
80 Took a chair.
40 BY.
A Tennis stroke.
As Shut out.
48 Chaldean city.
40 Vessel.
So General efficiency.
So Three-toed Sloth.
SIS Oppose manfully.
81 Run at top speed.
so Caddis worm.
81 Ceases from labor.
SO Smaller.
81 Appelation Of
Athena.
IS Talon.
&c Places.
SO Terrible.
60 Genus of the olive
tree.
20 Stitches.
" Like.
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GETTING OLD.

Sis-Say, what's the matter with your patent
leather shoes?
Clara think the patent has expired
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Independent

"All right, I'll smoke my own
then" And Dale lit a cigarette
before he went on. He saw Cap
tain Blake 60 into a lighted
dressing room and figured that
was the scene Of the crime. The
entrance to the dressing room
was directly opposite the stage
door entrance, not more than
20 feet down the corridor. Dale
noted that the doorman's chair
was set so that Michael faced
the dressing room with an unob-
structed view. It was the only
dressing room on the stage level,
probably not having been in
tended as such, but transformed
into one. Slightly to the right.
ard halfway between the two
doors was a circular iron stair
case which led to the upper loft,
where presumably the other
dressing rooms were located.
Robin Dale took in these details
hurriedly.
Should be an open-and-shut
proposition, Sarge"
Should be, but it amt. It's
so simple there's no sense to it I"
Tell me-maybe I'll help you
with the puzzle"
For all his belligerent manner.
Sergeant Jardin had a keen re-
gard for Dale'S ability, so he
hesitated only a moment.
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THE BEAUTY BOX
BY Helen FOllett.

When the human body gets
more food than it needs it tuckS
it away in the form of fat~cells.
To reduce it is necessary to cut
down on a fat-forming chow, and
to get sufficient exercise to dis
Sipate the adipoSe tissue that
has already collected. Avoid po-
tatoes, cereals, butter, cream.
macaroni, pork, fat meats, rich
gravies and heavy pastries. Eat
vegetables that grow above
ground, all fruits except alliga-
tor pears, raiSins, dates and figs.
Broiled meats, fish and fowl are
safe. Take green salads twice
a day.
Blackheads are deposits of
Sebaceous oil and dust that have
clogged the pores. When they
breaks the walls of a pore in
lection set UP and a pinple re-
suits. Soap and warm water
should be used freely, and large
blackheadS pressed out with a
comedone extractor, after which
the skin surface must be bathed
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The Drifter

It was about midnight when
the whisper drifted into Char
lies, where Robin Dale was aid
ing the cause of indigestion.
A drifter came in and sat
down at the table. There were
three or four of the boys
present.
"Just met Boyd at the cor
ner. He said hell's poppin'!
Alvin Merle was found q short
while ago in his dressing room
murdered, strangled"
Robin Dale set down his
glass with a bang.
"WhatI~1 just saw him to-
night =. was just mullin'
over that last act Of his. It
stuck in my mind like cameo.
He's been murdered?"
THE news is all over Broad
way"
Within a few minutes Dale
was on his way to the Christine
Theater. just off Broadway, on
Forty-fourth. After a perform
ance like that last act he was
dead! Dale could not reconcile
the two. He remembered the
big punch vividly. Merle learned
that the wife for whom he has
sacrificed everything in his life
has been selling herself willingly
to any buyer for money that he
could not give her, that the son
he adores Is not even his, but a
nameleSS brat In q rage
Of frenzy he slays her with his
naked hands the bottle
Of liquor through which he has
trapped her is on the table, he
guIpS q drink from it " and
calls the police as the curtain
slowly falls
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with a warm Saturate solution
of boric acid.
The amateur cosmetic mixer
should pause before she at
tempts to compound complexion
powders. For these toilet ar
ticles the chemist employs selves
that fluff the ingredients
through boiling cloth, thus get
ting rid of all harsh particles.
Cold creams can be made at
home. Vanishing creams and
rouge required the skill Of the
expert coSmetician.
Remember this, you vimmin
who like to experiment; only the
expert can mix perfumes sue.
cessfully. A flower oil that is
sweet and delicate, combined
with another delicious odor, will
do double murder. Both will be
destroyed. When selecting a
scent, don't sniff too many
bottles, or they will all lose
their sweetness. When a de-
licious and satisfactory perfume
is found, stick to it like q
friend and O brother.
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"MISS HARD BOILED" :,

Non, petite. But one may
be foolish without being q
fool. The night life Of this
so splendid city has taken its
toll of women wiser in the
ways of the world than Made
moiselle Raquel. And you love
life-to dance-youth."
He was still fuming over the
night at the Chateau Madrid
with BERTHE Adams. Over his
failure to bend her to his will.
Il like living, if that is what
you mean" she said, lightly.
"One does not gulp good
wine. One sips it. inhales 1t
for it's rare bouquet"
II am not yet a judge of
good wine, Monsieur" Raquel
laughed. But I shall take
your advice and be loking al
ways for the rare bouquet"
He had played directly into
her hands. Had enabled her
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His Dressing Room

''That there's Merle's dress
ing room. He went into it at
two minutes to eleven. No one
disturbed him until 11:40 when
the stage manager here, who's
been waiting at a restaurant
for him, comes back wonderin'
at the delay. He knocks, and
there's no answer. Then he
opens the door and there, at his
dressing table, still in the same
clothes he wore on the stage,
sits Merle with a rope twisted
around his neck, tied in three
knots at the back, Strangled to
death. The funny part of it
is that the doorman never left
his seat from the time Merle
went into the room. and swears
that no one entered or left the
dressing room. And what's
funnier still is that there's only
one window in the room and
that was shut on the inside
and latched and it's got iron
bars across it on the outside.
It's SO damned simple, it's
craZy!"
Looks like you and me are
going to work, Sarge. Wait un-
til I telephone the office"
Dale got Pop Beacon at the
Daily Journal office, gave him
the bare facts and left him to
get Merle's career from the
files. During this DR.. Wattles
arrived and hurried into, the
room.
Copyright, 1890. King Features
Syndicate, .IncD
Ito Be Continued Tomorrow
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Up Broadway

It all pictured itself again as
he hurried up Broadway, famed
by q balmy breeze of early
&. But news is and
the murder Of Broadway's most
famous star was big news. Wait
until Pop Beacon Che was on the
desk that night heard it.
Captain Blake Of the homicide
squad, and Sergeant Jardin
were already at the theater
when Robin Dale arrived. There
were y I others :
small lobby inside the stage
door, Murray Clyde. the stage
manager, and Michael, the door
man. Murray Clyde was a dap
per sort, although a little ruf-
fled now by the tragic event.
Michael, an old man, sat in his
chair smoking pipe. At his
time Of life, death was not such
q tragic thing. The policeman
outside the stage door knew
Robin Dale, so he got by. There
were a number Of others gath.
cred in little knots outside, at
the entrance to the alley, which
led off Forty.fourth Street. The
stage entrance was in the alley.
Hello, Captain-hello Sarge"
Captain Blake greeted Dale, who
was never unwelcome at times
such aS this. On q number of
occasions In the past he had been
OF considerable assistance to the
police in solving battling crime
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CORRECT
MANNERS
MRS. Cornelius Beeckman

DEAR MRS. BEECKMAN:
l. My friend and I are in
vited to a wedding Eve are not
engaged. Who should pay for
the present for the couple?
2. What would you suggest
giving?
3. If we give one gift from
the two, what signature should
appear on the card inclosed?
4. How should the gift be pre-
sented to the couple?
S. Is it proper for the young
man to buy the gift?
M. c.
/. You should not send a gift
together. It is bad taste and
might create unfavorable COM
ment. Each one sends the gift
that he or she can afford.
2. It is difficult to answer the
question unless you tell me how
much you have assigned to the
purchase of the gift. Anything
~or the new house is, OF course,
appropriate; a piece Of silver,
linen, crystal, books, an enamel
clock. a picture. a detail for the
tea table demon fork, tea.
strainer, muffin tray and so
FORTH. book ends, bud" vase
or a covered bonbon dish.
3. You would have to put
both signatures on the card.
which II hope that you will de-
cide) will look awkward.
4. The wedding gift should al.
ways be sent to the bride.
5. No. not for both. Why
should he? A gift means a per
sonal thought, not somebody
else's thought, for you.
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By Jane Dixon

to let him know that she would
become her own Judge Of bou-
quets. That she would learn
life's flavors through slipping of
them. And base her prefer
ences on experience.
OF the opera-the passion OF
the human heart in song-she
quaffed deep. She could never,
she felt, drink enough of it,
She wanted to bathe in it. To
go on letting it flow through
her in kind of exquisite hurt.
To lift her arms. to cry out
with the JOY of it. Her eyes
wet with the infinite pain Of it.
will we come again?" she
asked Alphonse in small
hushed voice when they joined
the eddies and Swirls of the
human lake that gushed down
the noble flight of steps and
overflowed into the square in
front Of the majestic facade of
the Opera.
"As often as you wish"
AlphonSe assured her.
She gave his arm a grateful
little squeeze.
Then I must work very hard
and try to please you always"
. she said, in a rush of gratitude.
He patted her hand as a
father might have done. And
felt, in the leap of the pulse
at his wrists and against the
immaculate white collar be-
meath his rigidly held Jaws,
like anyone except a father.
They had supper at a place
called The Ambassadors in a
park.
Raquel walked as one in a
dream. The spell of the music
was still upon her.
She wished these people
would not be so strident in
their frivolity. They laughed
too much and too loudly. Their
movements were too feverish.
There was too much color, too
much froth, there we're too
many jewels.
And music! Did they call
this music? Thumping and
whining and wailing and clash
ing. A medley of frightful
noises, each noise striving to
drown out the other. To pick
and rasp along the nerve
wires more ruthlesSly than its
rival.
Jazz! This was not music.
It was pandemonium. Punish
ment.
She danced with Alphonse.
Her feet dragged. They were
in revolt against the rhythm
she ordered them to follow. She
had never made such a fail
ure of an attempt to translate
rhythm into motion.
"You are tired?" Alphonse
was at once SolicitiouS.
"No." Tired with the mem
ory of that flood of song purl-
ing through her senses? II can
never be tired again"
"I understand" said Al
phonse, kindly. ~The opera
would affect you that way. It
did me. For a long time. It
could again."
She did not hear him. Until
he was saying, with a little
twinkle of pride and amuSe-
ment: 1.-THE eyes-they follow
you. Already you are a sensa-
tion." ...-
(TO Be Continued Tomorrow
(copyrIght. 1890, Metropolitan News
paper Service)
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love. Mrs. Dexter, she knew,
was one of them.
She thinks she loves him."
said AlphonSe. 1T may be she
is only in love with love. One
must wait until she finds him
now that she has tasted the
power Of beauty. Many men
will be at her feet. Did you
see how they followed her
with their eyes?"
How could they help doing
so? She is so-startling."
yes" Did the creator regret
his work? LAS they follow you
ma cherie. You have the spark
too, the irresistible spark. You
must not burn 1t out-as this
man has done"
Raquel tossed her head, like
a thoroughbred filly scenting
the race.
NO fear of that, Monsieur"
she said. II am not fool"
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DO YOU KNOW
THAT

A hotel that caters exclusive
ly to tramps is operated in
Essex county. England. Here
trampS are taken in from the
road for several months rest
and q fresh chance in life.
President Machado, of Cuba,
voluntarily cut his salary to
less than half in order to help
reduce the national budget.
His salary in the future will
be $4,000 a year instead Of
$4,000.
Engineers in Germany are re-
ported to be considering plans
for the draining of the North
Sea in order to add more land
to their country and obtain de-
posits Of coal and other min
erals.
Tokyo, Japan, which was prac.
tically destroyed by an earth
quake seven years ago, has been
rebuilt at a cost of $500, 900, 900.
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YOUR RULING
STAR
William Shwader-
THE YEAR AHEAD
For those whose birthday is
JULY 8

JULY 8
If July 8 is your birthday,
during the coming year you
may meet' with some obstacles,
possibly make some changes
which will not at the time seem
for the best. All matters of
serious import should be given
great consideration and nothing
done thoughtleSsly or careless
ly. Domestic affairs may cause
some concern. Important
dates: Avoid excesses of all
kinds, take no risks and main
tain routine from July 8
through August, and through
September 81. October l to 4,
7 to 10, November II to 20,
December 90 to 81, January l
to IA, February 13 to 16,
March 81 to 80, April / to 81.
Good for general affairs, make
efforts to advance your inter
csts. from August Is to 18,
September 2 to 20, October 25
to %, January l to IA, Febru.
airy 20 to %, May / to Z, June
% to 26. Contradictory dates
show two opposing influences.
A CHILD born July is apt
to be unusual and clever, but
he may become too tactless
and perverse to hold the posi-
tion in life to which he aspires.
At the age of 81 and again at
AZ or 43 he will have important
issues to face and will need to
use good judgment.
TENDENCIES FOR TOMOR-
ROW July 81: The celestial
vibrations are not particularly
harmonious and indicate the
possibility of loss through over
confidence or extravaganza or
through deception. Planetary
aspects are always influenced
by the conditions existing In
your own life, The purpose of
restriction and disappointment,
as well as success and happi-
ness, is only to gain experience
for advancement.
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n ID
TELL IT TO ELSIE!
/. By Elsie Robinson

Support for minor children
or for wives who have grown
old and sick in marriage SER
vice-of course.
But how about young, healthy,
childless women who are per
fectly able to support them
selves? Should the courts
back them in the claim for
support from men with whom
they will no longer live. Is
such alimony just? Is it even
decent? Isn't the woman WHO
takes it on a par with the
thug and the white-way butter
fly? And shouldn't all decent
citizens despise such a para
site?
Bob wants to know. So, in
cidentally, does the world. For
alimony Is no longer the rosy
racket 1t once was. Quite a
number of people are begin
ming to think it's a consider
able blot on our civilization.
So read Rob's letter. And then
let's hear your verdict.
Dear Miss Robinson:
II suppose I'm crazy to ex-
pect sympathy from. you on
the question Of alimOny, for
you women always stick to-
gether, even through murder.
But 1t will be a relief anyway,
to say what I really think.
Five years ago / married a
girl that / was crazy about.
She worked in the same office
with me. Every man who met
her fell for her-she. was 50
pretty, so slnartly dressed, so
quick and capable, and had
such a snappy line. When we
were married, 1 thought l was
the luckiest fellow on earth.
What a sap / was!
Lazy and Whining
"As soon as she married, she
quit her job. That was my wish.
had dreamed, as any regular
fellow does, of coming home to
a beautiful, happy wife and a
comfortable home. But right
from the start / found my mis-
take. AS soon as she stopped
working, my wife also dropped
every other responsibility. She
seemed to think she had settled
herself pretty for life, and
didn't need to make any fur
ther effort.
"She not only let herself get
sloppy, but she let our home
get the came way. She was
lazy and whining and ill-tem.
0ered. She sat around reading
and let the house get dirty and
disordered. She ran up bills for
clothes, way out Of proportion
to what I made. Nothing j
did ever suited her. She nagged
me till almost went crazy.
And her mother pried into our
affairs and unfaiIingly took
HER side. So did her girl
friends. You would have
thought I was \ second Blue,
beard the way they acted. Es.
pecially when 1 tried to talk to
ner about keeping up her end,
and demonstrated with her for
the way she was acting.
Clashes With Wife
"Well, we had argument after
argument, with her always in
sisting that l was in the wrong
and having Mysteries all over
the place when she couldn't have
her own way about everything
Finally, whe had one whale
Of a row, and / got so diSguSted
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CHAPTER /

It's rarely that blase Broad
way Is shocked by catastrophe.
But the night Alvin Merle was
murdered it was almost as II a
tremor ran fom Times Square
to the Circle, when the news.
in the mysterious fashion news
has, was whispered among lit
tie groups on the corners. In
the speaks" and the night
clubs. It was almost IL when
the crime was discovered. but
by / the word had gone up
and down the street and into
the side streets where life had
begun to take on q rosy hue.
The word Of the mysterious
murder added . little touch OF
blue.
Robin Dale had a night off.
Strangely enough he had taken
over q little trick for the
dramatic department, and gone
to see Alvin Merle in his final
performance of "Paramour."
After being a solid hit for two
years on Broadway the closing
performance was by way Of be-
ing o celebration, and rated a
story. So, having a night OFT,
and never having seen Para
mour," Robin Dale worked. AL
vim Merle had been the roman
tic idol of matinee girls for
many seasons (for the ladies
who came at night, too, for
that matter, and a perform
ance had never before been
more rightly billed as the last.
Alvin Merle never knew It was
his last on earth.
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The ''Perfect" Mystery That
Rocked Blase Broadway

cases. Sergeant Jardin was not
so kindly disposed; he resented
newspaper men prying into
things which did not concern
them, regardless Of results.
How'd you get this. Dale?
We haven't sent out a word yet"
my nose for news, Sarge.
Even if I tried to explain that
strange phenomenon, you would
not be able to grasp it. Got a
cigarette?"
Don't you believe In signs?"
Jardin jerked his finger toward
a mo Smoking" sign on the
wall.