ORI OLE Booth Tarkington Copyright, 19m by the Boll Syndicate, Inn THE SECRET. Synopsis—Proud possessor of a printing press and equipment, the gift of Uncle Joseph to his nephew, Herbert Illingsworth Atwater, Jr., aged thirteen, the fortunate youth, with his chum, Henry Rooter, about the same age, begins the Pub. lication of a full-fledged newspaper, the North End Dally Oriole. Her- bert’'s small cousin, Florence At- water, being barred from any kind of participation in the enterprise, on account of her intense and nat- ural feminine desire to “boss,” is frankly annoyed, and not at all backward in saying so. However, & poem she has written Is accepted for insertion in the Oriole, on a strictly commercial basis—cash in advance. The poem suffers some- what from the inexperience of the youthful publishers in the “art preservative.” Her not altogether unreasonable demand for republ!- cation of the masterpiece, with its beauty unmarred, is scorned, and the break between Miss Atwater and the publishers of the Oriole widens The Sunday following Florence's particular chum, Patty Fairchild, pays her a They are joined, despite Miss Atwater's openly expressed disapproval, by Master Herbert Atwater Hen- ry Rooter. Patty is delighted, Flor. ence stays aloof. visit and PART I|—Continued. A At times the noted eyes of Atwater | & Rooter were gentled o'er with the soft cast of enchantment, especially when Patty felt called upon to reprove the two with little coquetries of slaps and pushes. Noted for her sprightlt- ness, she was never sprightiler: her pretty laughter tooted continuously and the gentlemen accompanied with! doting sounds so repulsive to Florence that without being actively conscious of what she did, she embodied the phrase, “perfectly sickening” in the hymn she was crooning, and repeated it over and over to the alr “Rock of Ages.” “Now I tell the versatile Patty proposed, hausting the pleasures of raphy.” “Ghosts,” and other intellect, “Let's play ‘Truth.’ each take a paper and a pencil, then each of us asks the other some question, and haf to down the answer and sign your ns and fold it up so nobody it ex- cept that and we haf to keep It a secret and never tell as long as we Hye” “All right” “I'l! be the one to ask Patty.” “No,” Herbert ought to be the one to ask “Why ought you? Henry “Why ought ye “Listen I” Patty way we'll I'l question—we ha f vou of you what let's play” after ex- “Geog- of tests We'll and one we { hi cian see one, Rooter a question, sald promptly. or Patty.” wm “1 1} a rd each erie d, now nsk to ench one 1 ask then we'll write it. That" grand!" she clapped her hands; checked herself “Oh. I can't, either. We haven't got per and pencils seemed recall Florrle, dear! Run get us some paper Florence than to Increase the loudness of her volee as she sang. “Perfly clef’ for me, let me perf’ly sick-kin-ning!™ “We got plenty,” said Herbert, as he and Henry produced pencils and their professtonal notebooks, and sup- plied their falr friend and themselves with material for “Truth.” “Come on, Patty, whisper me whatever you want to.” “No: I ought to have her whisper me first.” Henry Rooter objected. “I'll write the answer to any question; I don't eare what t's about” “Well, it’s got to he the truth, you know.” Patty warned them. “We all hat to write down just exackly the truth on our word of honor and sign our name ” do. f whisper Of me gress we unless her in to the yt pencils nnd gnye no sign other sick'ning, Promise? “All right,” sald Patty. “Now I'll whisper Henry a question first, and then vou can whisper yours to me first. Herbert” i This seeraed to fill all needs happily, | and the whispering and writing began, | and continued with a cozineas little to the taste of the plously singing Florence. She altered all previous opinions of her friend Patty, and when | the latter finally closed the session | on the steps and announced that she | must go home, the hostess declined | to accompany her Into the house to help her find where she had left her | hat and wrap. | “1 haven't the least iden where 1 took ‘em off.” Patty declared In the | alrlest manner. “If you won't come | with me, Florrie, s’pose you just call | REACHES AWAY BACK, A hald-headed society man tells this | one on himself. He was at a lawn | party and a matron who thought he was foo busy talking to a pretty girl to notice what she wns saying re marked in a low voice another matron “What a nice face Mr, Blank | has.” Just then he happened to remove his moment and he heard the “Yau md how much there * Peete to Lay for oa ly eons ript . to get 'em for me.” “Oh, they're somewhere sald Florence coldly, not ceasing to swing her foot and pot turning her head. “You can find 'em by yourself, I presume, or If you can't I'll have in there” or somep’'m tomorrow,” “well, thank you!” rejoined, as she entered the house. her own gate, “That's a pretty way to speak to company!" Herbert ad- dressed his cousin with heavily marked severity. like that I'll march straight In i | fact” Florence still swung looked dreamily away, the alr “Henry foot and Sang, her She to “wp of tock of Ages”: Rooter—Herbert, too—they they were only too well thelr annihilating re- However, prepared with sponse, “Oh, say not so! Florence, say not so! Florence, say not They even sent this same refrn'n back to her from the as they departed with their companion ; and, so tenuous Is feminine sometimes, under Miss Fairchild mingled her sweet, tantalizing young soprano with thelr changing and cackling “Say not so, Florence! Oh, say not Say not so!™ PART TWO They went gsatirically street, their chumminess with one an- other bountifully increased by thelr common derision of the outsider on the and at a they contrived make themselves in- tolerable: back over shouiders, at intervals, with sayv-not-so 1 80 odious street, lovely Riresses, gol down porch ; stil even distance 10 looking their Twin Ray 20S - “Say Not So, Florence! So! Oh, Say Not Say Not So!” expressions on thelr faces, these faces were far enough away to be but yellowish oval planes, their say-not-g0 expressions were still biting- ly eloauent, Now air, as three became In- the hateful i i i dusk. Florence stopped swinging her foot, left the railing, and went morose- ly Into the house. And here it was vital to her present career; the first arising out of a conversation between man and wife. “Sit down and rest awhile,” sald her mother. “I'm afraid you play too Do sit down quletly and rest ence obeyed, Mrs. Atwater turned to her husband, resuming, “Well that's what I sald. TI told Aunt Carrie I thought the same way about it that what Julia's going to do next, and nobody needs to be surprised at any- thing she does do. iver since she came home from school about four fifths of all the young men In town have beem wild about her—and so's ————————— A living memorial, distinctive and has been dedicated since the World war, was unvelled recently in Yosemite National park, Popular Mechanics Magazine in an fHustrated article, It ls a tablet of bronze set st the bage of one of Call fornin's famous big trees. This giant af the forest, towering above the or- dinary timber that surrounds It, stands ! i that!” “Yes,” Mr. Atwater added. old widower, too” His wife warmly accepted the amendment, “And every old widower, too.” she sald, nodding, “Rather! And of course Julia's done exactly as rhe “Every ly she's going to do as she pleases “Well, of course, it Is her own af- falr, Mollie,” Mr, Atwater sald, mildly, “She couldn't be expected to consult before—" “Oh, no,” she agreed, “1 don't say she could. Sul, it is rather upset- ting, coming so suddenly like seen him-—never even heard name before.” “Well, that part of it isn't clally strange, Mollle—when he born and brought up hundred miles from just how we hig very espe- wns town three I don't see heard his here, or got way.” unwilling to in a here, have visited in seemed conld he into the Mrs. Atwnter yield a mysterious point, In her chalr, her head, and after setting her lips rigid- ly, opened them to Insist that she could never change her mind: Julia had acted very abruptly. “Why couldn't papers some decorously shook she “Why, that hour before least a few days before Mr. dia? Atwater sighed. she ex- in her letter it, herself, she only knew wrote, “Her poor father!™ his wife repent ed commizeratingly, “Why, Mollie, 1 don't especially to he pitied " “Don't sald Mrs. Atwater, “That old man, to have to live In that an she Boo er's you? big house all alone, except a few ne gro servants ?™ “Why, no in the neigh! hood, uo sri} the houses down ths street, are close reln. be realls And he's deal If ask me, be ised witha without a it really through “Oh Atwater 3 4 Surpr suicide not quite suicide, perhaps,” oleate Tt ge te protested, I'm glad though !™ fathom ate, falled to “Why? She his simple meaning, “Well, desperate at least” he “Prohibition's a safeguard for the dis. appointed in love” This phrase and a previous one stirred Florence, who had been sitting quietly, according to request, and “resting”; but not resting her curl osity. “Who's «disappointed In love, preoccupied parents, “What Is all this about Aunt Julla, and Grandpa goin’ to live alone, and people committing suicide and prohibition and every thing? What is all this, mama? “Nothing, Florence.” “Nothing! That's what you always say about the very most Interesting things that happen in the whole fam- What is all this, papa?” “It's nothing that would be Inter. esting to little girls, Florence. Mere ly some family matters” “My goodness |” Florence exclaimed, i i § | You're always forgetting my age! And if it's a family matter 1 belong to the family, I guess, about as much as any- body else, don't I? Grandpa himself isn’t any more one of the family than I am. I don’t care how old he Ia!" This was undeniable, and her father A peculiarly the war, great tablet, stream of the Merced that through the park wax gprinkled upon the tree and the tablet, to symbolize the purity of the devotion of the men who died In the war and whose names retin unrecorded, The rock at the cgre about one way or the other,” he sald, “Well, I'd care about it If it's a se- cret,” Florence insisted, “If it's a se- cret I'd want to know It whatever it's about.” “Oh, It Isn't a secret, particularly, [ suppose. At least, it's not to be made publle for a time; it's only to be known in the family.” “Well, didn't I just prove I'm as much one o' the family as—--" “Never mind,” her father said sooth. ingly, “I don't suppose there's any go telling everybody, Your aunt Julia has just written us that she's en- gaged.” Mrs, tion, him, “What's the matter? he asked. “I'm afrald you oughtn't to have told Florence, S8he isn't just the most disereet—"" “Pshaw!"” he laughed. “She certain. ly Is one of the family, however, and Julian wrote: that all of the might be told, You'll not speak of It outside the family, will you, Flor- { ence?” But Florence was not yet speak of it, even Inside the 0 surprising, sometimes, are parents’ theories of what will not Interest thelr children. She sat staring. her mouth open, her throat closed; and In the uncertain {llumination of the room these symptoms of her emotional con dition exclama- to check Atwater uttered but she was too an Inte ahle went unobserved, Aha! Fortune throws in Miss Atwater's way a sure instru- ment of revenge! (TO BE CONTINU | HAS MANY CLAIMS TO FAME | Island of Jersey Has Been Called a i Wonderiand—Realily Is an i Interesting Place. The for many Clock" Daily i ders,” high famed “Under Loudon ¢ is of remarks the island things, Jersey the of t coiumnist ihe News, , . . lilles, g« “won- feer of its most its chief residu- duchy, presum- British undoubtedly fought t Hast. has fers, i potatoes and cabbages ten HEgh, to mention onl {and of the liam's victorious army, a to this day and the island whic Yaa viva inws “When 1 young taught that people kiss until they were engaged.’ “Then she sighed and naded : “1 suppose that is why 1 never gv i engaged myself” Was a young "t New Zealand's Signature. In the Parliaswentary library in Wel. lington there Is a plate glass casket, with a dome of leaded glass, which stands as a memento of New Zoa- innd's birth as a nation. The world’s recognition. won by the New Zea { land soldier on Gallipoli and in France, was symbolized by the signa ture, William Ferguson Massey, at the foot of the Treaty of Versailles. fountain pen and seal then used by the prime minister of New Zealand casket, which stands upon a column with a stepped base, the whole being about five feet In height. The seal has a plain wooden handle and a leaden base on which appear the Initials “nN 2" I ————— Overlooking Nothing. His Friend—Great Scott! fine pearl you just found. at least £500, Mr. Grabitall-—-Yes, and I broke a tooth on it. As soon as I sell the pear! I'm going to sue this restaurant keeper for damages. . That's a It's worth A man never realizes the worthless. ness of his earthy possessions until he tries to pawn them, foot of the tree on which the tablet wae placed was taken as a symbol of principles for which the men fought, tree, which It is hoped will Hive through generations, was cited as emblematic of the living and growing gratitude of the nation for the su preme sacrifice made by Its sons Ip the war, — A —————— AB There 1s a future .philosopher In | the schoolboy who wonders w hy “the | boy stood on the burning deck. IDEAS IN SLEEVES Arm Coverings Grow More Beau- | OFFERS NEW-STYLE GARMENT tiful and Inspiring. When Properly Proportioned to Indi- | vidual Figure They Add Grace and Charm to Wearer, The sleeves ou the later Parisian are than first more notable even They beautiful as time passes, that adornment the nore ONes seen seem conceived for lnspirin Ideas ure are really t has been so long since we have sleeves that we ar with coud orate them more than those even been expe ted | the slusm have § by who created them In be- proporticned to the | lual figure and ndivl ise On a quite Is others unadorned there are | xl { 3 Kloeve ut simply Siow quarter over a dress consis same material ; carried up and ove covering all but silk <otton length shoulders, sleeves of collar and linen or blouse, ' GOWN CF CREPE WITH LACE i § =i ! Home Use, Exper hold Science Say. This is a stunnie d — crepe with lace in embroidery to match eminently satisfactory Lia onial afternoon occasions or restaurant | at i} 1 wear, i gown of green ——— —— In Place of Buckles, — <3} ] } : 4 a creation for GRACEFUL LINES Trimming for Coats, Frocks and Suits important Feature of the Sea. son's Modes with coffee-colored crepe de the cape 1921 at conte the | Many of with are ack or fash. aver ! loned coats, | the Often | An exceedingly r hem, | Made of the | trim shoulders SeNROn. fo panels this shoulders be attached Loose, floating ocks and extend they smart deep mahogany model was velours, the front having much the appearance of Falling over the shoulders { at the back full of the | material, which extended to the hem { of the wrap. At the lower part of graceful | | the coat sides rows of buttons were fr suits from may they gain at but panels there must be, was a cape were frocks and coats more artistically and of line than those Introduced this fall. | When the frock or wrap Is made in | Placed, to which the long full cape hlouse effect the blouse in many in- { cond fastened If desired. There stances covers the belt or girdle, says | W08 a high collar of beaver, Brooklyn Eagle. And when the garment is not intended tod douse there is little indication of smugness at the waist line as the belt po more than a trimming line and he frock thus continues from shoul- | fer to hem in a long straight line. The new coats are % to material and style Never before loose he FASHIONS IN BRIEF with be he wilted Dresses matching tinue to voted smart, A new collection of imported gowns the tight-fitting sleeve which beautiful. both i forms a point over the hand. duvetyns and | The present silhouette displays the continue ag the favored ma- | long skirt, low belt, well. fitted shoul. and the majority show elab- | ders, long fahey sleeves, little trim- fur trimmings. Ewnbroidery ale ming, and generally long lines. embellishes a few of the smart! Velvet is much in vogue for the win. ! ter. Sometimes it ie heavily beaded { but more often plain, All shades of | rose and red are modish for evening, Fur hems are a part of some of the new suits, If there is a hem of fur there is, of course, a collar of fur to the jacket and usually there are also CAPES cone | show flours rials rate oO coats, An example is a stunning new model {f dark-blue velours, Large medal ong of soft old blue, red abd copper | winl thread were embroidered on the ower part of the coat and bands of | embroidery (rimmed the Jide sleeves at the lower part and | deep cuffs of fur, Iso the coat collar. The garment, | Plush or velvet are the favored mas ubelted and rather slim in effect, fell ! terinls which are used In moderation, 1 long straight lines from shoulder | plumes treated In all sorts of wavs o hem. The sleeves were inset with | and ribbon flowers are the popular i long shonider line und the wrap was | adornments, ressy ¥ HW Rme 1
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