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
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