Here we see Chicago with its fine
families, its beautiful homes, its great
buildings; and then
we see its poverty,
its tenements, Its
bootleggers and its
gangsters. And thus
it is a colorful pan-
orama that makes
@« background for
characters who are
as vivid and real
as the people you
find every day about
you,
When the daugh-
ter of a well-to-do
family makes =a
runaway match
with the carpen-
ter's son, the fam-
ily, naturally, ob-
jects, The theme Is
not new. It Is a famous complication
of real life which, in its various angles,
has provided Inspiration ever since
poets began to sing and novelists to
write,
This is a story of youth and love
that is as new and refreshing as the
first violet of spring, yet its problems
are those which might have confront.
ed a pair of lovers at the dawn of cliv-
flization; but in this case they are set.
tiled in a truly modern manner, with
the advantages of decision which com
mon freedom of thought and
freedom of action are supposed to con-
fer.
Infidelity and
Margaret W.
Jackson.
sense,
the overstressed tri-
angle are absent. Art is the only jeal-
ous mistress here, It has been the
achievement of the author to write a
real love story of the present worka-
day world, a story in which maid and
man, husband and wife, through all
their stréss, even anger and possibly
hatred, feel the dynamic current which
steadily draws then toward the
other.
one
CHAPTER |
— —_—
Call Me Up
Her life began to have meaning and
importance the day that Ernestine met
Will again on Michigan boulevard.
She had not seen him since they were
both children, and the attachment she
had formed for him then was a pale
plant beside that which sprang up in
her now. She beguiled with
Will, so in love with his long nervous
person, his burning black eyes, and his
bright exclamatory ways, that nothing
mattered to her except that
her, Lillian contended
Ernestine could have stopped
whole affair In beginnings,
is more than that
wrong.
Was so
love
that
the
but it
was
he
always
its
likely she
At that time Ernestine was surfeited
with safety. She felt In herself the
beginnings of spiritual Indigestions at
the security and complacency of the
Jricelands. At school she had dis-
covered that there were worlds beyond
worlds mother's, Her
family's outspoken conviction that so-
began and in their own
particular group was a conviction en-
tirely unjustified by facts. The oasis,
Sheridan Park, had become lost long
» 8ince in the great activity of Chicago,
and what the PBricelands considered
“old family” was unknown among the
really rich and powerful of the city,
as well as among the newly rich and
arrogant of the North
side.
Her schooling
Ernestine was
outside of her
ciety ended
“gold coasters”
was
twenty.
ished
Lillian
of school year
when
had
and had
of the
mamma's
were con-
been out
already
f
ie
the threads
them by
taken
outlined
up
for
connections. The
and fond other, At
Ernestine had more than
satisfied—she had been actively happy
just to be with her mother and Lii-
llan again, with Grandmother Brice.
land and old friends in the big lovely
house There
endless parties
and
sisters
y
or each
genial
first been
on Sheridan road. was
and
an parade of
weddir
few
be
on
dances
jut after a
128,
months Ernestine
ided that to reared In an “old
family” the North side of
Chicago was almost as bad as being
brought up in a town. She
knew everything that every one hoped
or did. of tl
were
dec
group
littie
Some & younger people
ambitious,
selves with the gold
entry, through
school connections, into the older and
richer
dricelands
horde of
becoming
and aligning then
coasters, or making
society of other cities. The
the
dwellers
were inaccessible to
house
into
apartment
who were moving Juena and
Sheridan Parks, crowding the
North Shore with glass enclosed tene.
Mamma disregarded the in-
vaders superbly and refused to Join
the northward movement out of Chi-
cago or the southward movement
downtown. She would stay where she
was, and Lillian complained that her
attitude not only protected her from
climbers, but also prevented the fam.
ily from doing any climbing of its own,
But Ernestine sympathized with her
mother's loyalty to old associations,
Ernestine herself was without social
ambitions. She was established among
intimate friends. She had only to be
natural, casual, mocking, and It was
enough. Ernestine knew ga strange
nostalgia, She wakened at night,
filled with the need to use her gifts
more actively,
And then, she met WII,
It had been twelve years since ghe
had last seen him, but she knew him
at once when she encountered him on
Michigan boulevard one November
afternoon after the Armistice. It was
late afternoon, and the sky was thick-
ening with dusk. Will stood with his
shoulders against the great granite
blocks of the library, looking out over
the heads of other people, into the
mysterious beauty of the clouds,
She stopped and looked at him, and
her heart missed a beat lest this be
some stranger who might respond too
boldly to her stare. But she was sure
it was Will. He did not see her at all,
and
ments,
Margaret Weymouth
Jackson
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concentration con-
It was
and his Intense
firmed her recognition of him.
his old stare,
When she approached him and
touched his arm, his glance came back
from the clouds and rested on her
face, and he smiled. His smile was
charming. His whole countenance
broke up into different lines and
planes; his face seemed warmer,
nearer.
“Hello,
natural tone.
book?"
She laughed with delight.
“Will Todd, you are incomparable,
They were shaking hands now and
laughing together. “To think that you
Ernestine,” he sald In a
“Did you get the bird
Sat Leaning Forward, Looking at Each
Other,
remember me, after all this time.
Ten years—no twelve! But—of course
I got the bird book. 1 wrote and
thanked you for it! Didn't you get
my letter?”
She was conscious
Of his clothes, which
bright and
without
was too
of many things.
were all wrong,
each
regard to the w
white, like a person
ways indoors, and though he was tall,
he was not at all robust. Yet he gave
a distinct impression of energy, mental
rather than He to
Ernestine positively electrical,
the person had
known,
He put his hand within her arm and
turned her southward, that they
walked shoulder to shoulder,
“Nary a letter,” he answered
see now why I have spent all these
And you
heart broken,
I've never trusted a
too loud, garment
hole,
al.
chosen
He
physical, seemed
to be
most alive she ever
80
wrote me! My
when I was ten,
woman n
was
gince,
She laughed at his nonsense, but
with a certain catch at her throat.
When she was eight years old he made
a beautiful book of colored bird pie
tures for her and bound it. He had
brought it from far out on the North-
west side of Chicago, where he lived,
to her home In Sheridan Park. She
had been at dancing school that after.
noon, and had never seen him since.
“It seems dreadful that you should
never have been thanked for the book.
I wanted to go to see you again, but
no one would take me. But I spent
a whole month's allowance on a gor.
geous hox of stationery with a huge
gold E on every page, and I wasted
most of it before I had a letter per-
fect enough to send you”
“Tl never have it now,”
“It isn’t right”
“I suppose I didn't address it cor.
rectly. Somebody should have helped
me. But let me thank youn now for the
book, Will. It was beatiful. I have
always treasured it. It was the only
thing I had given to me that the giver
made with his own hands.”
“Don’t thank me yet,” he sald,
drawing her into an entrance and
pushing a gilded button for the ele-
vator. “Take tea with me, and thank
me, in detail, and with repetitions.”
As they ascended In the elevator he
gave her arm a little squeeze, she
looked up at his bright smile and
hé sald.
return, memories flooding
over her. He had always smiled
charmingly. When he was a child she
thought It was because he was lame
that he smiled so sweetly, but now,
he was free from any impediment that
she could see,
Ernestine recalled the carpenter's
wagon at the stone carriage block of
her mother’s house, It was a bright
green wagon, with a green and yellow
striped umbrella over the driver's seat.
Old Peter Todd, who worked for papa,
had got down from this high seat and
turned to help his son. He—Poter—
had come to repanel the dining room
for mamma. As the boy's mother
wasn't well, he explained, he'd had to
bring him. Ernestine had at once ex-
tricated the tall thin boy, with a metal
brace on one foot, from behind his
father. He liked her, Silent with
every one else, he was gay and friend.
ly with Ernestine, He had come with
his father every day that summer,
and they had played together from
morning till night. How kind
ma had been to him!
dered if mamma would
now?
smiled In
be as kind
mate,
wagon
him and his
Perched perilously on the high
seat, she had gone home
father.
like the little house on the plains in
Oz. He had given Ernestine a
painted on it; and, after she came
of
mired.
And she had never seen him again
nor thanked him!
“What a charming place, Will I" she
exclaimed, as they
and into the room with the
ded with brass and m
i Crowded, small,
NOTK.
one of his own that she had ad
came out on
upper floor
Crow
dark
were set with colored linen run
At table there were
smoking, and throughout the
a sprinkling of men who looked
They had a for
They were not
every
yomen
room
strange to Ernestine,
eign sophisticated air,
at all like papa or Loring.
They ordered pastry and coffee and
sat forward on their
looking at each other, smiling,
bering.
“But how
asked him.
it at thirteen, #8 you expected?
But walking without {it
leaning
remem
about your brace?”
“Were you able to discard
“Sooner.
or so, I can tell,
champlon, and the American army had
to go to France without me, but
well, really. 1 never think it any
more. It's such a dammed interesting
old world to kick around
in,
wanting to play
of
without
tennis, I work
the Sun, and often go home after two
in the morning. 1 come
a few cars. The streets echo, and the
strangest feeling of unreality comes
over me.”
“What do you do, Will, on the Sun?
His eyes shone, His voice thrilled
with enthusiasm and excitement,
“I work in the art department.”
a “brag.”
“I've been there over a year now, and,
Ernestine, I'm crazy it. Lord,
it's wonderful, the feeling you get on
a paper. I've made some flne friends
John Poole is a friend of
a superiative announcement,
about
nine, and a
good too’
Every one In knew John
Poole, whose comic strip in the Sun
one,
Chicago
as the beauty of the Blackstone reared
against a winter sky,
“Why, Will, how fine!
er
you draw?
to hers in his eagerness,
“Did you ever see, in a newspaper,
the little curlicues around a halftone
-that’'s a photograph—decorations to
make the picture, which may be odd
in shape, fit into the type? I do those
things, and lettering, and sometimes
a spread.” He sent a waitress for a
paper, and showed her what he did.
“I get twenty-five dollars a week
for it,” he boasted. “And I'd do it
for nothing, If they didn't pay me,
The fellows are real guys, and we've
got a regular boss. This is my day
off, and here I am downtown, and go.
ing over there, pretty soon. I can't
stay away. If you'll go with me, I'll
drag you around the plant, and show
you the big presses, and introduce you
the Mr. Poole, and the fellows In the
art room."
(TO BE CONTINUED)
.
Many surmises have been made re-
garding the oldest language. In an
attempt to discover what children
would say If uninfluenced by estab
lished speech, Psametichos, an Egyp-
tian king, entrusted two new-born in.
fants with a shepherd, with the strict
charge that they were never to hear
anyone utter a word, These children
were afterward brought before the
king and uttered the word "bekos”
(baked bread). The same experiment
was tried by Frederick II of Sweden
and James IV of Scotland and by one
of the Mogul emperors of India. Noth-
ing conclusive was proved in either
case, The Persians claim that Arable,
Persian and Turkish are the three
primitive languages. Thelr tradition
says that the serpent that tempted
Eve spoke Arable, the most persuasive
language in the world. Adam and Eve
spoke Persian, the most poetic lan-
guage of all, and the angel Gabriel
spoke Turkish, the most menacing
language. Scholars formerly agreed
that Sanscrit was the oldest tongue
but later discoveries suggest that it
too is derived from some still more
ancient speech,
——————
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Even In this day and age there are
some people In England who believe
in witches. Burning the Clavie, an
ancient custom, of which the object
is to free the inhabitants of the city
from witches for another year, is still
celebrated at Burghead. Blazing em.
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flung through open doors of houses to
burn up the witchon
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It is n suit season, asserts a fashion
correspondent In the Cleveland Malin
Dealer, Leading the fashions for
spring are an array of stunning suits,
Herewith are some of the features
of these new sults which mark them
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The jackets are nipped in and have
fitted seams,
A small
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Sharkskin, like the suiting worn by
men, now takes its place as a
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Some of the pew suits have pep-
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high waistline so as to give a peplum
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The softest, frilllest blouses, tucked
In, are worn underneath,
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The miss prefers the shoul-
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cape swings from the
na-
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swagger.”
Madame
leurs
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wears
with the
one
The town tweed sult 18 most fre
quently of some bright shade,
But sharkskin sulting is
to found in the
predom-
be mannish
Kasha Features Cape.
with the
d hemi
two-piece sult down-in-the
back cont mm
A very
©
r
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interesting shoulder-cape
Almost all of these skirts are quite
long in } length, at four
skirt least
inches below the knees,
The foremost designers have turned
their attention to perfecting the en-
he new suits,
with a
other
introduced a blouse
tied in a
Lanvin
le neckline, bow ;
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There 158 a little of it io the
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This explains why d¢isturbances of the
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iis expenditures,
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i8 In his hands, the point of having
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little bows adorn this blouse “here
d there,
Aug
spring
’
Has
an
18ta featured in the
openings a crepe blouse which
bits of shirring on it and a frilled
From London the
shirtwaist blouse, smartly tallored and
fc in front like a man's tuxedo
shirt,
ernard
neckline, comes
ked
Chanel displayed
ing a
great
peplum
at the high
originality
by blouse
is
has
which
and
the
design
belted waistline
tiny appliqued bows down
The scalloped jabot blouses with
shirrings are distinctly the creation of
Patou,
There are two types of sults, really.
There is the mannish, tallored suit
and the “dressmaker” suit, The lat
ter, which is the ultra-feminine style,
requires the frilly, fancier blouse,
With these suits are worn the now
popular cuban heel shoes for Informal
wenr or a pair of the smart new ox-
fords with dainty high heels,
Flat envelope purses seem to com-
plete the ensemble idea with these
suits, As soon as top coats can com-
fortably be discarded, the always flat.
tering fox scarf will once more adorn
the shoulders,
A bright-colored, large-sized hand
kerchief flowing out of the jacket
pocket will not be amiss,
The spring felts and straws, too,
sport new ideas, Although the day-
time hats have brims, they are worn
off the face 80 as to expose the eye-
brows, They are very smart,
Old-Fashioned Cottons
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Whether it is the result of the re-
turn of demure fashions or not, the
fact remains that cottons, good old-
fashioned cottons, have returned for
spring and summer, Volles, organdies,
dotted swiss, dimities, the cottons
that used to make our best summer
frocks when we were very young are
now illustrating that even fashion
history repeats itself. But the fabrics
are changed a bit from the days of
our youth. Volles appear In exotic
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Muslin is stiffened and printed with
gay blossoms, Cotton net Is an im-
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New Colors
Reds come with an orangy tone or
are very clear and vivid, and the
next popular color for novelty Is blue,
the at
and
night in same way
exception
the same ithout n,
Gay Printed Jacket Is
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Whether the gay-printed or embroid-
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the tennis frock last summer would
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even gayer and the fitted, flared jack-
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common with the loosely hanging
Jackets of other years.
version this
Three Novel Chapeaux
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il «en
Top~Black satin toque with satin
ribbon trimming woven through net.
Center—Evening cap of gold pearls
with a vell to match, Bottom-<White
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upturned brim. It is trimmed with
from baby to navy,
grosgrain ribbon,
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