STORY FROM THE START a — In the usually quiet home of Rev. Mr. Tolliver of Red Thrush, fowa, his motherless daughters, Helen, Miriam and Ellen—"Gin- ger Zlla"--are busy “grooming” their sister Marjory for partici- pation in the “beauty pageant™ that evening. With Eddy Jack- son, prosperous young farmer, her escort, Marjory leaves for the anticipated triumph. CHAPTER I—Continued ——— While Ginger compinined, however, she obligingly did her share of the straightening, and the dusting, and the rearranging. “Nice sensible girls like ours, no frills, no ncnsense, no put-on about them. Work hard. Good natured Easy to live with. But let a man darken the horizon—disgusting. sim ply disgusting. Do you understand it, father?” “Well, perhaps—at least, | am used to it,” he evaded adroitly. Helen, returning, laughed good naturedly. “Now, now, little one. don’t be jealous,” she said. “Jealous—jealous! Me, Jealous? Jealous of a—a male school teacher?” Helen frowned. “Father, I wish sou wouldn't let her say ‘male school teacher’ in that Insulting manner. A professor of mathematics whhb two de grees is not the same as a male school teacher. And besides, as you know very well, he Isn't going to teach for ever. He Is going to write textbooks.” “Textbooks! But they've already got textbooks. Don’t tell me they're going to discover more mathematics to make us learn.” “Ginger, don't talk so loud, for gond ness sake. He'll be here in 2 minute Sh! Here he 18." “Disgusting — simply disgusting.” Ginger buried hersel! once more Ip the despised paper. tlorace Langley came in, greeted Helen with a perfunctory, before-the family kiss, and shook hands with Mr Tolliver, “What's the matter with Ginger?” Ginger looked up. “Oh, bello—are you here? | was just Interested in-— uh,” she stole 8 look at the paper “what Lloyd George sald to the Elks ~] mean, to Coolidge.” She nudged her father with a sharp tittle elbow “Ellen, suppuse we run down and have a cream cone?! | feel quite fatigued with the strain of living up the Marjory's beauty. Won't you come along, Miriam? Helen, why don’t you and Horace come, too?” “Oh, | dont think so, father. Not this time, thanks. You go. And do keep an eye on Ginger. She's so apt to break out unexpeciedly, you know.” Jut Ginger, disdaining answer, with great hauteur led the way down the flagstone path that curled through the green grass. CHAPTER II ft was a pleasant house, the old brown Methodist parsonage at Hed Thrush, lowa. While it was old In point of years, It was not called the old parsonage for its age, but because a new one was in projection. It is true that it boasted all modern improvements, but they were Im Jrovements so obviously added to carer fo a progressive generation that they fitted but inharmoniously into its gen eral cortour, The batkroom had been painstakingly Installed In a corner bedroom. Electricity had been wired in, at as little expense as possible. A furnace had been introduced into a cellar room, and at that time, to fa cilitate the piping, the parthion be tween parlor and sitting room had been removed to make one iarge liv. ing room, in strict conformity with the style, it was the living room which boasted the second charm of the old house in the form of « circular stalrease ris ing grandly from the back of the room. Perhaps, In the most technical phraseology. it was tot altogether a circalar staircase, but it curved grace fully upward, and gave the same effect. The girls loved it But where the old parsonage was merely of a drab pleasantness, the pew one was to He a mwouel of modern architecture, It was to have electric refrigeration—a parsonage! Only five houses In Bed Thrush had electric re frigeration—the new parsonage would be the sixth. In the true sense of the “Discipline,” the old parsonage was no parsonage at all. It was merely a house, owned by & member, and rented to the church for its pastoral use for ten dollars a month. The Methodist church bad thrust its small spire above the sur rounding maples woes there were no more than a dozen houses In the township, a staunch little testimony to the indefatigable determination of early Methodism. The bullding Itself bad vot been much Io its best days, by Ethel Hueston Hlustrations by by Irwin Myers W.N.U. SERVICE and was nothing at all in these, (ts worst ones. As anything but a church it would have been abandoned for practical purposes years ago. It was the growing realization--and it takes a church group many years to grow up to this realization—aof the nboslute need for more ample accom modations that brought Mr. Tolliver to Red Thrush. The district super intendent had been asked to pick out a “hustier” to put the pew church over on the congregation. Mr. Tol liver was known as = hustler, and so he cnme with his four daughters to the shabby brown parsonage in the maple grove beside the old brown church, It was the nervous strain of over work attendant upon hustling the new church into Red Thrush that foally resulted In 2 nervous reaction and physical wearing down which led wi last to temporary blindness, a cloud over his eyes, a thick mist fogging his vision. Rest, the specinlists In Chi cago sald he needed, good food, good alr, a general buildiog-up. The eyes Sr] — Vl it Was a Pleasant Mouse, the Old Brown Methodist Parsonage at Red Thrush, lowa, would be all right, wheg he was all right. He must take It easy for » while. And so his eyes were cars fully bandaged from even the faintest light, to insure complete relaxation and freedom from strain, but his en tire system must guin strength lo order to feed strength to the weak. ened members. His body must rest His mind must rest. [lis intense and eager spirit must rest, But before this catastrophe, the church was an assured fact. Within a few weeks, by the first of Septem ber at latest, it would be ready for its formal opening. The new par sonage existed io blue print. After all, a few months of blindness was a small price to pay for this achieve ment. Freedom from worry, the doctors promised, complete rest and mental ease would soon restore his sight, and Mr. Tolliver, although greatly haadl capped In his work, cid not worry as to the final outcome, True, upon his first visit to the doctors, some three months previous, they had thought a month's time would be amply suffi cient for his recovery, and at the end of the month the mist was still dark upov him. Another month, and still the mist. He should have returned some days ago for a third examina tion and treatment, but the financial situstion In the parsonage was such as to render this Impssible. (le told himself there was no hurry, he would go soon. For what with the travel and hotel expenses, and medical treat. ments, the burden of his misfortune was more financial than physical, But all this was only for a short time. When the new church wus a fact accomplished, he felt It would be easler for his ardent spirit to find the rest that would wean restoration for his eyen. He felt no sort of re- sentment for hig affliction. He got on very well, The girls were good, they helped "im greatly, The members were patient, full ot sympathy, be- cause they loved him. He knew his Bible from cover to cover, and his every thought was centered upon his work. so that his sermons did oot deteriorate. Just a little rest, free dom from killing worry. If only there were more money! If the girls felt anxiety on his ac- count, bravely they gave no sign. A hundred dollars a month Is pot a great deal of money on which to sup- port a family and malnwals three daughters In school. And Ar. Tolliver had never relinquished h's old custom of tithing-—a tenth of his mite for the Lord. If sometimes the girls felt that ten dollars a month could betler be spared from the church than trom the parsonage, that the Lord in His afMu. ence might better be deprived than the pastor in his poverty, they did pot complain, Ellen thought shout It, of course, for she was turhuent, given to turbulent thoughts. It was her birth which had cost the home its mother, Perhaps It was sorry knowledge of what she had cost the family that stirred her to a great eagerness to do something for them, that determined her to carry life be fore her with a high and triumphant hand. (Perhaps It was only her youth, for she was not yet seventeen. It was for this turbulence ot hers that she wing known as Ginger Ella. Helen, who was twenty-three years old, after two years of traning at the normal school, had served for two years as ® teacher ib a neighboring town, Her small check coming Inio the parsonage every month hud meant something almost akin to richness, until the unaccustomed expense of medical treatments hond made such vorucious demands upon them. Now the twins niso were ready te go into the pormal school for training in the full, Ginger felt that it was 8 real extravagunce ou the part of the fam- lly to assume the expense ol educnt. ing Marjory 10 teach school. That muney might better be saved Mar. jory was beautiful. The obvious end of beauty is marriage to great for tune. From her earliest childhood, in her queer, small heart, Ginger Ella had sacredly dedicated her beamiful sister to that high estate. Bhe would enrich the family by marriage. In her inexperienced youth, Ginger divided all men broadly into three general groups-—reguiar men, romantic figures and base pretenders [legular wen were (ike her father, settled aur. bane, and immune to sex. Like Eddy Jackson. Clinger called him a regular. Eddy Jackson had been one of thelr first friends when the Tolllvers cume to Hed Thrush fle was a farmer Not “hat Ginger called what Eddy Juckson Jid farming The relghbors did oot call it that, either, Clinger Ella called Wt playing. hey called it kidgloving Eddy Jackson was an agriculturist, an experimentalist. He wins of the pew school, one of those who studies the land as a8 mechanic studies his tools The neighbors Inughed at what they called his high. dinkuses—hut the fact thar he made, in spot cash, every yeur, nearly twice sume amount of land, gave him 4 certain authority among them. They sald he was lucky, but they went to him for advice There was a long tow bullding on his farm which Ginger culled the sacred shed Eddy Juckson called {t the lub. and plates und curious tubes and queer liquids and funny title boxes and bottles and cans of sand and soll, Eddy Jackson did strange things. with soil. with seeds and sprouts. Often, during the summer, young men, students from the sidie univer. sities, came and stayeqg at the farm— which Eddy called Pay hobnobbed about with him fruternally. But when Edds told them to do any- thing, they obeyed as If they were servants. And so they were, But not thé servants of Eddy Jackson servants of the soil, ¢f the state, the great farming state of lowa. S80 Eddy Jackson, for all his youth and his sometimes flippant way of denling with serious subjects, titted into Ginger's classification as regular ~just like her father. Ue never wased sentimental, He never suc cumbed to what she bitterly termed “pawing.” Ue went nbom with Helen until Professor Langley attained the heights of monopoly in her time as well us her affection, and then he obligingly transferred his attentions to the twins, taking them Inter changeably according to the oceasion, or both together, and sometimes. al though che always protested, Ginger herself. (TO BE CONTINUED) sss isis ps si An ex-convict who spent 15 terms in prison, recently visited the office of the London Daily Chronicle, and left & letter purporting to reveal a se ret method of Invisible writing by menns of which prisoners were able to vom municate with friends outside. In the letter he claims that this was the method employed by two prisoners who committed suicide, when, as stated at the time, they were able to send a request to friends to forward them poisoned sandwiches under the sys tem which enables prisoners on re mand to receive food from outside The letter continues: “In this letter is the method under which they sent out thelr messages, Can you find ty” ible” Writing The explanation and a test of the trick were finally volunteered. In the blank spaces of the letter the ex-convict had penned an Invisible message by dip ping the pen nib In his mouth and writing with saliva. Lightly done, this cannot be geen by the naked eye. To reveal the writing all that had to be done Is to rub ordinary Ink over the blank space, blot In quickly and the invisible words stand out like ordinary penmanship. . Steady Hand If you want a standardized worker eall Mr. Robin, He has heen digging worms the same way since the lee age.~Capper's Weekly, Heavy Borders, Deep Cuffs Now Prominent; Many Colors Shown. This season the formal coat will figure more prominently In the day- time ‘mode than it has for years and should logienlly be chosen before any other part of the costume, including the Scandinavian gloves, observes a fashion writer In the New York World. Since the shops are perfectly well aware of this situation they are bringing over many more coats at this season than dresses or nccessories and you may find many of the Paris cre. ations represented in your favorite store, Quite a large number of the coats are long, even judged by the stand ards of this season, and will cover the dress completely by means of a low, even hemline, There are some stralghtline coats made In the wrap: around manner, us well as many more formal models made on high- walsted lines and trimmed with any of the short, curly furs like krimmer and earacul, besides broadcloth and other dull fabrics, a great number of tweeds are being shown and the use of this fab. ric for coats that will be worn with quite formal afternoon dresses of silk Is one of those tendencies that is worth mention. One extremely interesting model of a Rodier black nnd white tweed Is fitted to the figure by means of in genious diagonal seamings and has os its sole trimming, a white galyak eonlinr: the ends are pointed and one passes through a buttonhole in the other to make an Irregular version of the butterfly bow, Another interesting tweed of the ostrich fleck category has deep cuffs of omhre Persian lamb and a tuxedo fur collar of the sort that goes ex- travagantly down to the hem, Coats in Dark Shades. Many of the coats which appear In solid colors are In dark shades, trimmed with very light furs. Furs, indeed. are being used to an extent that should have an eventual effect on the Inws, and your chances for picking up a coat for a song or two are radically reduced. The Pa quin convertible shawl collar man. ages to combine many pelts of the smaller animals and will be so pop ular as to send the prices of a whole division of the coats soaring. Little fur, however, will be used for heavy borders or for those deep cuffs which all wenr driving one nme rule out possibility of the her are era own All colors seen, The belief that some colors go definitely out of style Is largely a delusion Hright navy, particularly when nsed in combination with black fur, prom : green with brown for will much worn, and bright clear rticylnrly with biack four and will be a good fashion of women with limited In. : the effect one's nature of wearing a red day a whole season would cnr of course, isex well he very rod, pa which young on coit every One of the Interesting brightly-col. ored conts Is of green leda cloth with eollar of Hudson seal snd inches shove the edge. This is distinguished hy a very Im little bow of the cloth which Diagonal Bands, Slightly Fitted to Figure, Suggest High-Waist Effect. appears In the front at the point where the collar crosses when it Ix worn open. For the woman with sedate tastes, black Is still considered a very chic choice for afternoon conts. One smart model Is of broadcloth with black Persian Mmb making a nar row tuxedo collar and forming the entire wrap-around skirt—a fancy which you may Invest in with the full assurance that it will never be copled, since Persian lamb runs into Mig money. il - In the matter of linings, you will find that the new vogue for silk dresses nnd cloth coats has affected the old tendency to match the lining to the dress during daytime hours. A few coats have woolen linings to ac. company dresses of kasha or Jersey, but the majority of the linings are meticulously matched to the coats themselves. Other Furs for Winter. Another fur which promises well for next winter is known as mink gills It kas a striking brown and white pattern suggestive of the streaks in royal ermine and Is made up into a number of sports coats of the flaring variety, which must be held closed. Mink locks Is another new fur and appears in a soft dark brown with no bizarre streakings. It is used for a Coat of Black Broadcloth, Wrap- Around Skirt of Persian Lamb, daytime dress you could possibly own. 3oth mink gills and locks are sald to have all the sturdy wearing qualities of mink itself and they are absurdly less expensive. Ermine will be another highlight, in all-white for limousine night club wear, and in the beige tones for day. time. Summer ermine does nol tum white when the snow falls, as one in. genious lady protested; it Is slightly less handsome than the fur technienl- iy known.as Manchurian weasel or Chinese ermine which also comes In tones of yellow and brown Greige ermine will be worn about this winter and uniess you choose the old royal variety with black talls, you can hardly go wrong with this fur. Another new pelt which the genious trade has thought up for is known as kit caracul resemblance at all to It is as thin and luster sur 100, in- season bears no usual curly carncul. soft as velvet and has a prising in any fur. The majority of Lelong's afternoon conts are of the same type that were his big success last season. They are straight and slim to just below the hip line, then flare out by means of a binsed flounce that is slightly longer nt the back. This, too, many of the wraps that he suggests Godets Placed at Front. Evening dresses at Lelong's adhere to no definite rule as to the length of skirt or position of waistline. It would be incorrect to report Lelong as going in heavily for skirts that are jong all the way around, yet there are many of these in the new collection. ground In the back. But LAI OOOO UCC CAN ENN HHENKINN HIS I IKI RFR “ay Kitchen Cabinet a rg i sg Pm tg Pr Sr PP tf? LAI I) OOOO OOOOOOOO0O00 (&, 1929, Western Newspaper Union.) Not to the swift the race; pot te the strong the fight: Not to the righteous perfect grace” not to the wise the light; But often faltering feet come sur est to the goal; And they who walk in darkness meet the sunrise of the soul, A thousand times by night the Syri« an hosts have died: A thousand times the vanguished right hath risen glorified, -Henry Van Dyke. “ THIS AND THAT Today with all the modern con venlences and plenty of leisure for some mothers, the ques- tion is not what shall the average mother do with her leisure, but how may she obtain a little, It may seem improb- able to the class that has leisure, to realize that there are countless num- bers’ who have none, in spite of the fact that the world 8 full of abor- saving devices, We need not go to the tenement districts of large cities nor to the slums (so-called) to find leisureless women-~the country is fuil of them—on the little farms where wood and water must be carried In, as well as its waste carried out ; moth- ers of little children work from sun to sun with work never done, until the joy of living Is completely crushed out of them. What a marvelous uplift this world might have, If the leisare women might share a little of the burden of those who never knew the Joy of a vacation. Share It without making the other feel that she was accepting charity, In some little towns there {8 a is that one day or half! day week, one upeighbor takes charge of the children of another or more, a8 she can manage. This gives one n free time to go shopping, visir- ing or to do anything that she chooses und she takes her turn with the chil dren on a day when she can best look after them. How many people with roomy cars might give an afternoon to help some little pleasure. “here auto in the town, With running water and a bath burdened mother finds it les. as well as weariness, nerves of the mother well as restiess children, Before the auto is bought the house should and a washing machine, then when the time comes for the auto, there will be leisure to enjoy it. After a hard day in the bome for the housewife or on the farm or in the shop, for the father, a ride In the cool of the evening will bring a peace and calm that will induce sleep and one will rise refreshed and ready for ansther busy day. Hints About Foods. Unless you are sure of a mild, well flavored vinegar, the lemon affords the best of acids for dainty salads and other things, like pudding sauces, Practically all chefs dis- card vinegar and use the “witching drop of lemon juice” because it gives a more exquisite flavor, New York Salad.—Ar range slices of pineapple on tender lettuce leaves, in the center heap ten- On each pineapple and that—short at the front, then sud- the peacock effect that is a character. istic Lelong feature. Plain colored velvets, satins and lame fabrics are outstanding in the Lelong collection, as far as formal clothes are concerned. In printed vel vets he shows some new patlerns-— big, looge flowers in even colors and wide-apart patterns that give the fiat. ness of wallpapers. Lame is made up with the duller side out. There are two tulle dresses that strike » new line. The fullness of the skirt is put in, below the hipline, in all membrane, french dressing. Oranges are always in the market. Make and serve an orange shortcake Sarve with again. Serve the oranges, after cut- ting into small pieces, covered with sugar for an hour. Pour over well buttered, hot baking powder biscuit cut into halves. A sweet cake for the shortcake Is not as tasty as the bak. ing powder hiscuit mixture. Fruit Cup.—~Take one cupful of skinned, seeded white grapes and the membrane from a cupful of orange sections. Mix all together with a cup- ful of pineapple dice, one-half cupful each of orange juice and pineapple sirup. Add a few grains of salt and sugar If needed. Put into a freezer plaits, The skirts of both reach nearly to the floor. With this new program of special clothes for the afternoon, there is no suitable name for daytime dresses not in that category. “Morning clothes” they are called In France. But In clothes. In these, Lelong sticks main garnished with a maraschino cherry. Baked Ginger Bread With Apples. Cut five large apples ‘nto eighths, re- move skin and seeds. Cook in a sirup fourth cupful of water until the apples are halt done. Drain and place them. over the bottom of a buttered pan, Pour gingerbread mixture over them d bake in a moderate oven. Serve with whipped cream. as he says, “the style is said to begin | in the thread.” Often as not, two textures are used, one for the cont and one for the dress, | | Ike, with small eollars, If any, of flat furs. ‘The dresses show a belted-in ab the back. The fuliness Is concen. trated In a center-front godet that cupful of brown sugar, one ful of cinnamon, one-half teaspoonful of ginger, one-half teaspoonful of sal, one and one-half cupfuls of strained pumpkin, two eggs slightly beaten and one and one-half cupfuls of milk, one Mec Wroseorior
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