J1 ' 4' EVENING PUBLIC LEDRl?HILADELPHrA, THURSDAY, (NOVEMBER 24, 1021 fTHE MAN WHO WAS TIRED OF HIS WIFE Dy LUCILLE VAN SLYKE Ccpvrtjht Butterlck Ce, THE CHAItACTBnS rtcl SHulijEI" ruil , s i! " irffiv!" Tobacco preKer. imhte !fi life himself, and particularly ritA-Hls wife, forty-one. Careful Jffii YAsKty and In preserv- LI., imn imp) Thlrtv-1we. een In spirit, Helding the key 'tiwrday and tomorrow. Called a 2:1a 1 .nateher" by Oie neighbors. rDia'ir entry en Uie etrourtean scene iSSfiiw pulinK again In Charles' "JSIm resentment In Bertha. eedailn. of .Chart., develops the Uit he nae """"' "" " "'u "" ilfl! MOVED ponderously toward her flLml steeped te touch the tear en ?K Vttle Maggie Sherman." ISM n.M("?- ., ,u , HTjfd te live Uiuu.m t.., i.-... wu. kpfc cm neaucu i."" ?....i t pini,l veu around that bl la when you tensed me about the fij,.n twins and yelled. 'Wouldn't Kit either of 'cm, net if they were iOiieen of SIicdb, nnu uewn you IE ... " W!..T'!l... nui. fnnH." fthe Assured LVWcl.v. "It really didn't Clr at all. I really liked wearing K bnlBse. it muue me icci cus--,KL,hed. And It was the very next if liter tuat you ict mc & nieng 'Ede Veu caught tlie big bass down BFely's. Yeu let mu carry him MWhita whopper he was!" his eyes m glistening. "Yeu looked such a feeing "" , . M )Xi a IUUBI aniut -"D, ",, ii'Teu couldn't have had. Yeu were Jtiti nd years younger." "Fifteen, she answered succinctly. t Lt lust recall hew much elder iitrtlet was than Elaine, but her feel- Efmqtt have Dccn llke minc ou '?.. . nA in nui Ynn wpri the ni pw fcwn v ..- ..r ----- -'- ilf preen wnp mnuc me uuuuruum. merer known Aunty Debs if you JJa't taken me In for her te bandage, tin hear her yet saying. 'My stars. mit a lefty brew! And wnat a ,rrr one : J atthatever became of you all these "J!lrt?" lie asked her eagerly. "We J te wonder ami wernier, audi urui i 1. Whatever made you go off, filing that silly note, nnd however did Kj hide yourself?" She snoeK her neaa. "It decim't matter. It was awfully ftjj. Ana mebt or. me time x nau hi In tact, i ve nan tun most 01 ;U time since the day you nrst bpeite nmt. "l'eu ceuldn t possibly remember ht I'll have te tell you. The Reb- bem had just moved in the house rotund the corner from yours nnd I rife kinging out their dish towels. I Irii that forlorn ! Hated everything Ktl 'everybody! And you walked by Rung like the bind of a person who'd lorry for anybody who was in hard tort, pe I signed awfully. "Yeu stepped and said : ""Le. Cinderclln! Didn't the dnce thew up last night?' I '"I don't believe In princes,' I ilreltd. "i'eu beckoned for me te come ever j the fence. Yeu just Jellied me for he nut live minute nnd in the end en-Mid, 'Even if you don't believe in irinces believe In Kill Shakesneare. ie'lthebey that said, "All the world's utile." All you hnve te de is te re- umber you're nn actor, and just this slnute I'd tuy you were acting pretty u. You've get te step acting that ht or I wen t take you fishing with pe tomorrow. I won't take you nny w unless you dig all the worms " 'Teu ccrtalnlv wptp n kMiipv llftln Um. Aunty Debs theuchl " he topped, embarrassed. 1 "Aunty Debs thought the Hobinsens isn't rive me enough te cat," she rin JH for him. "Well, they didn't. VI gave me eneuch mnnt nml hrnul. fut they didn't understand thnt thir- eea-reir-eid peer relations need hy icIaUu te feast their souls. Yeu did. ouiire me lets of hyacinths." He shook his head Hupldly. Cln t remrnihpr fcnnrllnf. vnit emv Wdef flowers." leu called me Mndgc and Mnrgery tad of Mugglp. Yeu taught me te ir croquet. Yeu premised me a t'trlng ; corals with pink streaks in em 'Id learn te swim " And teetetally forget te give them reu " . 'I didn't leilrn In nu-lm vnvv a1I trer have learned veil enough Unit tft fflr.n TY.VL.lt .. Lll. l tit leek be worried about it. Think f "J, me you took me out le your BJAIs farm haying. Urn, I can wll that yet!" W leaned forward laughing like n 1kidAJ keyed up nil the time "All longing " her voice was ten- Ev . "'" ou Played with me K the kuZ zy ;.."" '"' "l li'. ?."' Mtieu never plujed with me ngnln." "B.Vif 4u(llnn'" he pJaculntcd. Hew did that lumpen? Oh, let's see Ml W09 rllO full 1 .... ... TI t. -. 11111 4 nt'lll, IU lllivnilll ,,'?'0,i,sllll,Cl1 out jeurhdf beferu I "" iu 11m nnu . "Tiu " -1.- , . .. 1. --i nui; acrcwi ninniiv. "i fWPM out jiibt nbeut n week 'after that cm party. I helped pnsa the ice i,i7 B!'u,w?s'i tuc iliblies for that W. And all the whlle T wna wnnli. Li 4". " ,vere ut en the side ii."tKlns tn "erthn. She looked se hU uhated ,,cr! Slie l"l big Wern hat with pink rows and a Ut d fknrtt rlrAc. -...1 ..!.- 1 1...1 .1, .'Jr-you called me ever and intro. lifciG."""".",.," "Ju."c" l" hi.... : HUtl ueu- Am 'I'0 ne1! w you si in SL 'Gee. thnt r-Ir-l i,,i,v ,.i.ui. ,1,. r?w. ?et tlle Prettiest laugh I flM ?. .' T went "P " ny r"n nml flCU mP ln,i. -. 1 1 , - 41 V. """ rl0Urs te niaKf my wiien't pretty laugh but I tt!rfe.icru,nW?1 en tlie hearth, iiiil'ii "ftlm's never Inst, her 1 rri nv L'mnmmtAi iiv I """"npwl ler fifit -"Ti 'llrtll't Ltn.A . !. --.. v uil- t UIU ii I.' ..111 ??wmf,ltwl (lr-Tlv- "Inush rfil.?Jll,the bc8t lhln Kcrltm docs. Hit,:, 41 nn '"0 most of the tlnie." 1. r ai. w against her tire that y. 1,00k at me while I explain some. mt- U, .about T!crthtt' Jt'8 :'7i 1 ?S iOU ,(,ou f "ii'lerstand, nnd . mtle hard te put in words. Yeu R4. r:0 n!T" lther of us been fair V 1 1 n lmv t0 te y'' 'hat Kei 1 1 Mer.,ha anrt '"''"'d with her Nnd ,i..m &" T Mw hr the Vflr-V W?H uy" I,. M "urprlsed thnt I h 2,ihr'J11" tlle Impulsive Idiot I Mlld, 'Oh, hew de you de?' Mi. 8h 11 Bl,? difl Vfry "c11' '"' Win i,f J"'1 luscious I J Willi L?beutL,,0w r1 bn iytem- Siiil,,,.n' .her a11 thMe yra- ! V p' WMr tne. .L- ...-. ."."" ... ti ii :"""" irincinDerci tne iiimi. ftna you're working semetvhere if.'"" eymmer?' " MufiSf l!eck(1 flr', carefully u'r'9U tones ncrfcctlv: she even added a rnthcr geed Imitation of Ilcr Uih'h second-best laugh. , Chnrlcs reddened. He get up abrupt ly. "Loek here," he snnpped briskly. "Bertha probably didn't mean any thing na ruw as nil thnt. Se we'd better leave llertha out of our conver sation. Didn't 1 have a cap or some thing?" "Please!" she begged. "You've get me wrong nbhelutcly. And we can't Icaws Bcrthn out at all. I'm only tell ing you nil this le make you see Bertha. Yeu and I lmvc neither of us ever seen Bertha herself. I've seen a person I hated nnd you've seen a person you loved. We've loved nnd haled Bertha's prcttlness instead of the real Bcrthn. The minute you began bcold bceld ing nbeut her it Hashed ever me hew awful it must be, I mean hew awfully hard it must be te have te be a Bcrthn. She's always been ornamental, part of the scenery instead of part of the pluy. A whole let like Gulliver tied down by the Lilliputians their wee ropes were trivial, but all of them together kept him prisoner. Berthn's been pegged down all her life by invisible hairpins nnd hairnets nnd veils and gloves nnd high heels and bearding-school manners and absurd little Ideas et! class distinc tions and lace dollies and a thousand and one inconsequential things that scorned important. If somebody had only loosed these Btrings children would have done it!" "Why, Bertha nlwnys thought that children tied a woman down!" "Then why arc we women who hav en't them fe cramped? But at thnt Bertha's better off than you arc bu cauhe blic's never known freedom ; se she doesn't knew what she's missed. It wasn't Bertha that worried me It was you. Seeing you just cut!" "Yeu mean because I didn't knew you? Why, think hew glad I was " "Yeu blcseicd denr! It was I who didn't knew you ! Net till I saw Ber tha. Oh. it's net iUst that veu're twenty pounds tee bteut or that your. nair is getting grny or these owlish specs of yours behind them jour eyiv leek the way mine must have looked the day you ca'lcd me Cinderella as though your soul were bankrupt I 4nd nil these years I'd been thinking of you as rich in joys nnd fancies When I think back te thnt summer when you poured out n wealth of fun and com fort for the poverty-stricken, scared little girl thnt I used le be, I feci as though I could never pay jeij back." She moved closer te lilin. she took his hand in both of hers. "Se think hew glnd I am that I've happened back when you need me. Y'eu cun't knew, you can't possibly remember, hew much joy you have stored awny in my heart. Yeu cun't think hew I shall love trying te pay back even a Utile of the great debt that I ewe you. Kvcn it I can't begin te give you anything like nil the lovely unexpected moments you gave me, I knew that I hnve much thut is yours te glve back te you. Didn't I begin te pay a little the ether day when I took you fishing?" "Loek here," he stammered rtwk wnrdlv, breaking in en the flood thnt bewildered him he hadn't grasped a iiniirtcr of whnt she meant "it's very nice of you, but I we you cun't go around doing that sort of thing new we're elder! Net in this kind of n place! Wliy, this kind of u place is just full of u let of tnbby cntu who wouldn't understand at oil if I well if I bheuld seem interested in you " "Seem interested ! Yen nrm.'i .,.. ing te seem Interested in me; you're going te be interested in me!" In delicious mimicry of his Auut Debor Deber ah's old Scotch maid she wound her hands in nn imaginary apron. "When you re tnreugh wi' your bickering Master Charley, what will ye be takin te your Bupner?" her simulated rIi1. Ing whine curried him back 11 score of years. He rumpled his hnir excitedly. "What rows Uncle Redman nnd T used te hnve Sunday nights! And what wouldn't I give for a dish e' Til lie's scallops nnd bacon!" "We're just out of scallops, but we ve oodles of bacon I" she caught at his hand. She fairly raced him into the kitchen. "I can cook it scrunchy the way you taught me en a campfire. Yeu cun de the toast. There's ncriiiin of raspberry jam and we'll cat till we're fairly wlilgy wi' feed!" They ate In the kitchen. She snf nn the tuble and swung her feet while her nbsurd deg begged for scraps. They laughed immedcrutely us she pretended she was Tlllle nnd ecoided him as Tlljle ubed te bceld. She banked her fire, just as 1 11110 nua ennKed hers. She wound the clock, exactly us Tlllii; had wound hers. Then, with it quick change, she dnnccd nleng the hull nnd in Aunt Deberahs dear old phrases called: "Reddy, dear! Charley boy! Come out of tunc Kitchen: ion ve pestered Tillle long enough. She wants te set her bread " "Yeu witch!" he cried. "Step It! Yeu're just the same imp you used te be! We never knew whether te laugh at you or te shnke you." She edged away from him. "Yeu must net sluikc me new !" she cried in mock terror. "It wouldn't he snfe for jeu te shake me as you used t de! Yeu might lese the key out of my pocket!" "What Ley?" he ili'iniimied, rom rem pletcly mjstilicd. "Thi- key te jester day? Don't you remember It? The motto Aunt Deberah hnd framed and hanging beside her bed : "The key te yestcrduy I threw awn, And new, tee late, Before tomorrow's cloi-e-Ieckcd gate, Helpless I btund, in vain te pray In vain te sorrow Only the key of jewterday Unlocks tomorrow." She hnd opened the deer nnd wns leaning against it. the sweet night wind blowing her hair about her well -shaped head. Suddenly, without in the least knowing why he did it, he tilted her chin upward. "De you like me n little. Miss Imp? De you like me u little?" Ills absurd old endearment for her slipped out quite unconsciously. It threw her off guard. She steed tip tip tip tee with delight te think that he wns really beginning te remember her. She shook hands with herself cordially; that wns a droll trick that he hud taught her. "Oh, heaps and heaps!" she an swered ecstatically, just ns she had In the jcars geno by. lie steeped te kiss her Just as the Rawsene' enr rounded the bend of the reud. Even though Chnrles Shirley was blissfully unaware that it was the Raw eons' headlights thnt hnd left his un premeditated kiss in midair, he found himself grinning rather sheepishly at Margery's closed deer. It was Intinltcly better that he hadn't actually kissed her and .vlef course she must have been perfcuiy aware that he'd meant lel He waited n moment. He didn't want te seem te be running away. He heard net a sound. And Margery, lean ing limply against the closed deer, struggling te smother her laughter or was it n sob that made both bunds fly te her threut? listened te his soft drawn whlbtle of relief us his footsteps crunched lit the gravel. CONTINUED TOMORROW THE GUMPS High Cost i By Sidney Smith t I A RViCVcS FOR h. PAUL OC riir.JP-T J COULD H TVIE VMOtt KX M VHE -1 HoeTr Ka 4 D0UVK8- v mrs . 7fl I -WlrVG KE.GPS UP 1'l.L OUST HfcVE I Q Te WM-V AMOUNT) Xmt A PMfc. ?SA K OF OU STOCKING ON AAV , A w -- v. mf prw ioek AT THIS HAT- I VW 8 Bucks Few. Yvu hat- " ' vr TALLOWS AfcE, SYKKWG A T2Wi MEAV M AN 823 HAT .E- &Z KHttt ME THttw. n- "--- ?y TALK ABOUT mCES Q0HG t0HN-' CtM'T SEE IT- ICC- LOAL- ELECTRtC U6HY- GN$ TeLEPWOME- t?!iiQONt FARE- 8TILU0H "WE ROOF- (3ASOUHE AND TIRt .TS1 Vhr PROP BUT Wve wi I'V'X " AVTCO MOtnut te wc "'"- - ITT nMrtTftTTTTW I i b h 4Bj,-'5am THrt -RAV THE PRICES OF BRUGES AWt BAtt.E3t.IP& WENT VOWW SOME"- BUT mew WOOU IN VV0RKM6 MAN UJOK OH a rsMURDAN NVOHT GOING HOME WITH K rttc nNLV TMIH08 TWNT EE TMAT ARE GON6 POWt4 ARE THE THINGS' 00 VONT netw- - A . rtSlTST V. jBl SMITH SOMEBODY'S STENOGAlse With Thanks Frem Yours Truly I v re I am Thankful i have aie hair em mb head or i'b soem Be WORRIED Bald HEADED1. irVO j 1 f Jfm e.'y j&B THE "BOSS" . - TifcJ. L? rcff&S l! 9 .0fer6&. x-l. nvx "-a. 7 rsssr -" kvv c-(e WfW IM THAAIKFUL I 'GOT M-f DESK Tl)RAJE.D SO I DOVT HAVE. TO LOOK AT THE Rn.'AAAP- IT MAKE.S ME -SAD -AAI& IM (3lad they Sarr A CA6E 'f?OUMD THAT AlOAJkEV OF A BOOK- KEEPER, AM &, AAA THAMKFOL C-ID All AALr rjfAJ? W FRIEAIDS. THAT A4EAMS YOU. MISS CAM 0'FLAGE,THE REAL BOSS I AM THAAiKFUL BECAUSE AS THE DAYS GO OH J- DRAW AJEAJ?ER AAJD THE REAT OMAMCE. I KAIOW WL EAITER MY L-; LIFE Copyright. 1021 P by Public ldr Cemptny By Hayward j 'r-v j55XSZ J ' ZUW -" CrVx. J U J . t fi j 'ii cj 1 - 1 j 1 -3i v y VE.MUS -eyc MOOCH , I'M JESTHAMKFUU I'M ViTH YF? '. DOAT EATr -TOO MUCH TURK E H y-liiSv?iPi p "wr k . r r -rjz wmif aa MMT 2 VVnN AAAR'h' tiOODLE. The Yeung Lady Acress the Way ...i....i, . .M ! ISiWy The young lady across the way bays blie saw in the paper that the ether team kept intercepting euV forward passes and for her part she prefers honerablo detent te victory obtained by such unfair methods. "UP AGAINST IT" By FONTAINE FOX SOY I ,i . 1 . t iH v.Ifc " .V "Wm ' A fa Dad hmer had ANY Toe MUCH ftoeM BHHO THAT TiifilMG WHtfBL AT 0E5T AND vHM HE AT THAT 0IG CeOrfmY OtNHW OOr AT GRAHPtiS FARM IT MAS WAV UATE IN THf. VNiMO SufeRC He cculd Dfli v. back Te 7&wa . SCHOOL DAYS By DW1G PETEYIlew About Safety Razors? ft! n-anu ftnz': SAY.COSS, VJMAT AUE DIS ARHAWEK1T V0T5 Gein' t?0UWD ? V -OH-DISARMAMEHT.') VJHY HEUf$VmAYS A PLAk! Te De AWAV VJlTO WEAP0KJ5 OF UWfc v5J?1 V y'.y VKM 4. MM m a T.M sV'M i& L si. w- I mil TmmirnrfiVfn Wi &T$ imh W1 50RTOFALEAGUE OF WATlOWS $f ;n 1 "f OH LAIG h ) A ( ob uaTieusA - AKKlb AND LAI6S if l?nrv ALi'kln .Snm r-'V Te DiNfff?E T ir ' I FlWG- ..JC-J ' y t jC I vs CSkN L V4& 4 t wmm No.Me.Hewry "Just The opposite :: WOWDEKFUlLlHlUC 10 DO AWAY VrJlTW ALL-TUEWffAPbWS OF WAR.. Fal c- Vjgfea jgayg GASOLINE ALLEY Just Before the Battle, Mether Believe mb m Ndent wait tee" IHANriFUL I'M tMAKPIEP.1 LONG-, UALT. A jssmssmmffssemai By C. A. Voight WAL, "BELIEVE. NlE SDH - I AIWTET2. 6WIK1E STOP SWAVIKJ PE-J2. N0Bv)D0Y.' r (p AW fOMG OM SMORTV! &UHC it An1 in snaJ VOU SOMETHING NimiT! By King , . f NEV6R SAW SUCh (SVJL 1 Wf I I I I I WRLT, YOU RFALLY OUW FEOOW LIVIMG- N JtAlOU5 LOT I fwTu7Kir- 7 Jee "Tp V.i MfOOO UOK.N' WHeN HE 7, .f I peTMeeN THE OiaJBMi TO PICK OUT A NICE AROUNO BY HMSEIF THEPE ARE ThPEF PEKSONAL HtV3? CM UNSCPSU TiG!f " H" ,Mli HAndv luuPfc u ANOTWlNO BOTMeBS HIM WIFE FOR VeubseIfM IS UABLE Te CeT JMAePIED CRASS Rv TUece T ffS TMlS JAR OF JrOOiJm HANDY WHEN ArMEAu "J v sss v vlw "w r,rl "-' i"r.. u mcm eiiwlc uric'. CTAT.C-TI-C t i mwmi. v ri-c.ecr.c3 Mmmruu y.Gmwi& c u jnm ,, .v,wv - V . i-. v " W r J ,l.j: 1H IJJK . SKI.T .. Hr. 1D.BK9IB ILI i I f-' HT 'M IV . 1 N . ' 4 1 u . 1 '., . -w f T.,.
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