THE STORY ian Renewing a childhood attach- ment, Ernestine Briceland, of a wealthy family, is attracted by Will Todd, newspaper artist, son of a carpenter. HErnestine's sis- ter, Lillian, knowing their father would disapprove, urges her to end the affair, but Ernestine re- fuses. They maxe a& runaway marriage. Briceland is furious, but helpless, a> Ernestine is of age. Loring Hamilton, lawyer, wins Lillian’s consent to be his wife. Will and BErnestine begin their married lifa In a single room in a humbla neighborhood. John Poole, Will's best friend, gives a birthday party for Ernes- tine at Ruby Wastano's resort Pastano irritates Ernestine bY criticizing Will for bringing her to such a place. Conscious of ap- proaching motherhood, Ernestine opens a savings account. Will's father dies suddenly, Lillian and Lorin” are married. Will's moth- er dies immediately after the birth of Ernestine’s baby. 1 CHAPTER VII—Continued a “What has friendship got to do with business?’ Loring asked, and his own face flushed with resentment. “I tell you I've got to make new contacts if we're to bring a different kind of clientele into the office. Besides, I didn't disapprove of Will knowing tim. It was only his taking you to that dive. Do you think I would mix Lillian up with that crowd?” “I can't see any grand difference,” retorted JErnestine, “Lillian isn't a baby. She's your wife, anyhow. Be- sides, the Pastanos are all right—all of them. I know them well, and the two girls are as fine as any I have met. There's not a month passes that we don't visit them, or they don't call. Mr. Pastano admires Will. He once hurt my feelings, and he's been making it up ever since. We've been friends without asking about his polit. ical activities er how he makes his money." “It's all very well for you to take an attitude with me,” declared Loring, “but I've come home with the deter. mination to make money—and a lot of it. Chicago is rich. I may as well take some of it as others. And If an acquaintance with a powerful man like Pastano falls to my luck, I'll pursue it, Will would want me to.” “Will would,” admitted Ernestine, but her looks were cold. “You've changed, Loring. You used not be so ambitious.” “I've acquired a new sense of values,” he admitted. “Of course I'm not saying at all that a man should stick at nothing to make money. That's a mistake, and no good any- hew. But I've been around—I saw one thing everywhere. It Is the pas sion for the possession of money-—as much as a man can lay hands on.” “Don't be Loring,” said his wife mildly. “Look how happy Ernes- tine is, and she's as broke as broke” “I am happy.” declared Ernestine, “Yes," admitted Loring, “but that Is because your capacity for happiness is creat. Your pleasure In your marriage and your child wouldnt be spoiled at ’ rs silly, all by more comforts. “I don't want anything changed” “Not now-—not at this moment. But if you'll be honest with yourself, you'll find that one reason for your content. ment is your great expectations for the future, You feel that your condi tion is only temporary. Come now, Ernestine—isn't that s0? You are confident that there will be money for you and WIll, when Peter grows older, and Will's work develops Into more importance. Being poor ean be a game if it's only an Interlude. Dut if you had to look forward to nothing else" The truth of his logle hurt Ernestine unbearably. “I don't care whether Will ever makes money or not,” she declared passion ately, almost in tears, “You think you don't,” sald Loring ““exorably. “But Will wouldn't say that. Every man wants money-— every woman wants her man to have itt It's a symbol of power, If Will doesn’t get it he'll feel that he's falled your confidence in him." Ernestine found herself trembling. Lillian picked the baby up and dan- dled him and spoke quietly to Loring. “You are disturbing Ernestine and it isn't a bit nice of you. All this shout- ing makes me wonder if you doubt your own ability.” She took the baby and put him in this mother's arms, Loring apologized. “It's a bad habit I have—arranging my own thought in an argument. It dosn't mean a thing—sophistry puse and simple. I know you are sincere, Emestine. Don’t pay any attention to me.” The talk fell Into safer lines, but Krnestine was no longer happy. Lor. ing got out his car, and, with Lillian and Ernestine in the back seat with the sleeping baby, he drove to her home, They left her now as they had left her in Erie street, disrupted, un- happy and at odds with Will. She was awake when Will came In, and she fixed a light supper for him and told him all that Loring had sald, with some small editing. “He's a capable lawyer, I suppose,” Will said. “And if Ruby wants to give him work to do, and Loring wants to do it, what's the difference? He's not the only lawyer that would like to get his fingers into Pastano's ple. But anyhow, I've got something to tell you, Underwood's going to New York, and Tucker's to be head of the art room.” Margaret Weymouth Jackson WNU Service Copyright by Bobbs-Merrill Ce, Ernestine felt a cruel shock of dis- appointment, She knew WIll had ex. pected this—had hoped for the job himself, “But Tucker's so young,” she pro- tested. “It isn't that—he's capable. glad he got it,” sald WIIL Ernestine thought of what this job might have meant, The pay was near- ly double, They could have rented this house and, with the rent and the increase, moved into an apartment io Ravenswood, “Oh,” she cried to WII, aghast at her own mental processes, “It's so hard not to consider money. Not to want it! Not to care! I don't want to be greedy and grabby. I don't want to crave success. But I am—I do. Isn't it horrible?” He looked at her with some humor, “You aren't greedy and grabby, sweetheart, And as for success, there's a legitimate way to want that —not for the money but for the work. I don't think this has any effect on my future. It's really an executive position, and I'm a golltary worker. I'd be no good at bossing. It's an edi. torial job, and Tommy has an editorial slant on things, He's fitted for it.” A few days later he came home with a shining face, “I'm to be Poole’s assistant,” he said, “Do you realize what this means to me? It's worth ten thousand in cash —to work under him. If a person went to him and offered a hundred dollars a lesson, he wouldn't teach him to draw, but would curse him out of the office, And he'll teach me, and I'll be paid for it. It means no more night work. Ten till six, I do detail in the art room until Mr. Poole comes in and then I work for him all afternoon. He does a copy for a New York syndi- cate every day, and there's always work to plan ahead and sketches to lay out. He's been boozy a lot lately, and I think McDermott feels that If he has somebody to help him he'll keep ahead and not run so close to pubil cation, Wiston didn't want to send me in there—but Poole insisted on me,” He sighed with happiness and added, as an afterthought, “It means another five-dollar raise—maybe more later.” He was so thrilled and excited that Ernestine commanded her heart to yield its disappointment over Tommy's job. But she could not see any real future for Will In losing himself In the great man's shadow, * N - . » * » “I don't want Ernestine said. go to Europe. a fuss there'll be” “Then don’t tell her” his simplicity. “It I'm mamma to know" “I'm afraid she won't Besides, you know what sald Will Jn isn’t really any one else's business, is it?” “You don’t know Of Ernestine sighed. they'll take It. business—they’ll And 1 feel She'll wonder why I how course it's their fo say. have enough embarrassed with mamma, didn’t tell her” Will kissed her cheerfully and went away to his beloved job. He was ra- diantly happy and his happiness seemed to affect her inversely, Every day was an adventure to him. “Tommy gives me plenty to do,” he admitted one evening. “Tommy's a good boss, He keeps us all humping, and gives every fellow the kind of job he can do best, jut it's the work for Mr. Poole that makes up for any chores, Ernestine, I tell you he Is a great man. He comes in there—some- times he doesn’t know whether he's eaten or not, but as soon as he gets in that little office, which fits around him like a glove about a hand, he be. ging’ to function—the way his mind works is always a surprise. What's the matter, honey 7—you're not eating.” Ernestine leaned on her hand and her eyes filled with tears, “lI hate to have mamma go away now,” she said. Will's methods were Infantile, “Then tell her. You know stay in a minute.” “Go on talking about the office, please—sgo I can think.” Will laughed. He took a half-dollar from his pocket and spun it on the kitchen tablecloth, “I won me fifty cents, eraps at the office,” he sald, go to the movies.” Ernestine plucked the fifty-cent plece from his fingers, and he made a pretense at regaining It, she'd shooting “We can “Now my thinking process 1s en- tirely disrupted,” she told him. *I thought Mr. Wiston was going to fire the next person he caught shooting craps in office hours.” “I don't belleve he'll do it,” sald Will comfortably, and Ernestine did not belleve it either. The men were always matching pennies or rolling dice or making up pools. Will pushed back his chair, came around and cupped Ernéstine’s face in his hands, kissed her cheeks and lips and pressed her eyelashes down hard with his caresses. “Don’t be blue, honey—don't worry,” he bade her cheerfully. “You're the prettiest, sweetest woman In the world, It's natural for us to have a family. You're not going to be unhappy about the new baby, are you, Ernestine? It's the way of love.” “I know,” she sald, down and kissed him, was strangely sad. She drew him each other, for weeks without seeing my family— Mamma and Lillian are always so busy, and papa is in New York. And I get proud and avold them on my part. But as long ag we have our love for each other—this oneness—it's the best thing in life—what can we lack?" He picked her up, sat down in his mother's little rocker, cradled her, sang silly songs In her ear and teased her. jut after a little while he was talking about the office again, and she was resting against him, entirely in- attentive, her thought on her own af- fairs, CHAPTER VIII Will and Loring Loring succeeded In securing for Ruby Pastano the deed and title to the old LeQuinne place in the restricted colony at Langley lake. Ernestine was filled with Indignation that he should do such a thing, “Mamma won't like It at told Lillian. “LeQuinne’s uns right down to otirs with but Stone creek between the two places, You know how it will be with the Greeks there. The house will shply be bursting with visitors all They will have speed boats, and there will children In the water from morning till night.” “But I thought you liked them,” pro- tested Lillian. “You friends of theirs, Mrs. Pastano is so about It, I thought id be d lighted, and so did Lorrie. In fact he counted on your help in calming mam- ma if she objected.” all,” she iand nothing summer, be are you wo Emestine shook her head. “He his It's lain to me that Loring's ideas differ ours. Will and Ruby Pastano Will would never of sell ung can do own calming rom » real friends, yet thought that place to He fits into his own place, in but he won't fit in people—the Hendersons and the the be They'll not belong to tourna- “hicago, there, The Mayces and kind to the country club, n« O'Tooles them. wr be in the I suppose it's not to worry about it, only I am thinking of mamma.” ments after this You won't go there next, Didn't darling, that this stone-merger thing Is You know, dhven “Mamma summer, or know, going to make papa rich? papa altogether nearly quarries in Indiana where some of the best limestone is cut, and then he has proxies for the Langley quarries. For the last year he and Lorrie have been buying options and small Interests in other quarries, a merger. The quarries are worth at their present rating five or six million dollars altogether, but the merger will be worth twenty-five million. you see what it means?” Ernestine stared at her, worth millions?” Lillian nodded with pride. “Yes, and Loring Is some of the stock. owns “Papa— complacent getting You don't need to worry about mamma at Langley lake, open Lake Haven next week. for Will's vacation?” “1 don't like to leave Will alone In Chicago, in the heat" “But I am leaving Loring. well, Ernestine?” “My feet bother me,” Ernestine ad- mitted. “I asked Doctor Grey about it, but he didn't say much. He's put me on a diet. I'll be all right.” “1 think you ought to stay at Lang. ley lake all summer.” (TO BE CONTINUED.) Are you Havé you any idea how much water the average city dweller uses daily? Take London, with Its gigantic popu- lation, Here the authorities have to supply an area of 058 square miles, and give the 7,000,000 people the wa- ter they need. Would you have im- agined that each of these demands no less than 36 gallons every day? Yes, that is only the average supply per head per day. In the dry, hot wenther the amount required for each person becomes 40 gallons, or more than a barrel of water per day for each man, woman, and child, London is net the thirstiest town. Scotland consumes more water than England, In Glasgow and Edinburgh, for In. stance, the average consumption per head Is not 30, but 37 gallons; and to Helensburgh, In Dumbartonshire, be- longs the distinction of being the most thirsty town In the whole of the Brit. ish isles, Here they take 81.7 gallons per head. One reason given for Scot. land's large consumption is that the water supply is much better than In England. : One's Personal Business An enlightened society can provide opportunity, and enlightened men car provide convincing examples, but only the individual In his interior life car make any use of them. —Woman' Home Companion, Summer Apparel Cool and Dainty Fluffy-Ruffle Outfits Are an Important Part of Mi- lady’s Wardrobe. Summer days are garden party days whether the garden be a real one on 1 country estate or a sophisticated ind artificial one atop the roof of a smart hotel In the metropolis, In #ther of these gardens dress In rela don to Its background is Important. {ts material, advises a fashion author ty In the New York Herald Tribune, 8 a matter of personal preference. I'his year there seems no limit to the choice. The only requirements are hat It be fluttery and cool looking. Prints are important for this type of frock, the size of the figures varying from tiny patterns through medium- sized motifs to large designs, These ire on_ grounds of crepe de chine, zeorgetie, chiffon and silk mousseline, me of the novelties creating consid- sruble Interest. Another novelty is the use of black silk or satin slips under prints which have not even a hint of black in their jexign or thelr background. Dots, popular in materials for early summer dresses still are seen, but our Paris report tells us that there BO winter. now plald chiffons and silks are being used. Luter we ghall see heav- ler silk fabrics plaided, as well as ald woolens, Bows are everywhere call garden party have popular for a what we They time, on the dress, been long Tight Waist and Fluttery Ruffies Fea ture Charming Dress for Summer, Eecause they can be used in so mar ways fo make frocks becomis a and Hminution in feminine there is no 4d they remain gaining in faver lection. They are used at on skirt nt the back of neck and at the waistline in the back, where thes into bus their use. So with us with each new col the elbow yokes, the are exagperated tie effects, Flat bows are into the frock in a way that defies the copyist in the fine gathering or pleating used in drawing the bows together at Ye knots, An interesting Muffy. ruffle affair for afternoon wear is cut along the pop glar “slinking” lines of a generation incrusted being emphasized by five wide, fluttery ruffles extending all the way around the lower half of the skirt. The are wide and fall loosely inches of bare arm between the hemline and the tops of the long, white silk gloves, The wide brimmed hat worn with this outfit ig, of course, suitable with the long skirt, which barely reveals the white kid slippers. Wraps Invariably accompany the thin summer dress. They may be or siraight hip length jackets. Or rial ta match the dress, edged with a ruffle or fine pleating. Sometimes these wraps are of exact iy the same material and pattern as the dresses which they accompany. Sometimes they are of the same ma- terial, but are plain In color, while the dress is figured. Tea Rose Is Favored as Chic Shade for Lingerie Costume slips should be three inches above the dress hem. They are In clining to fitted lines and also to lace trimmings. The reported substitution of other laces for alencon and heavy types Is beginning to register. White lances of finer mesh are reported to be wanted for white and pale tea rose lingerie, while the deeper tones are still combined with darker faces. Ten rote Is nu very popular lingerie shade. Chantilly lace is among the alterna tives, while rumors of valenciennes are more numerous than the lace Itself, Black and natural chantilly Is highly effective. While very low backs are characteristic of many slips, the tend. ency Is toward built-up rather than camisole neck lines, ’ Today, the prevailing “minimum age” for n wage-earning child in either manufacturing or mercantile establish. ment varies from 12 to 14 years; the latter being the general limitation; though many progressive states have raised It higher yet. To be effective, any compulsory limit on child labor must go hand-in-hand with compul- sory education, so that an enterpris- ing but short-seeing youngster may not decide to quit scnool and set up a boot-blacking stand or newspaper route on Lis own, Causes of backaches and constant headaches are traced to thelr sources throug paths devious to the lay mind, rather than temporarily cor- rected by drugs, The eyes, ears, sin- uses, nose, throat and glands are checked to see how healthy they are, Heart, lungs, kidneys and abdominal organs are examined In the manner of expert diagnosticlans anywhere, Ex- perience is needed to evaluate the find- ings. For example a toxic condition might be found resulting In backache, loginess, pains In joints, a soggy skin, a lack of energy. Many things can cause it, The wrong kind of food and poor elimination or constipation would among the first things one might investigate, bie How many boys between sixteen and years have any idea what "they are going to do when they have finished school, or are receiving any help to guide them? A survey made In New York city some years ago showed that 100,000 boys between the ng sixteen and three positions a year, held 34 vear! eighteen eighteen years ave We found one different posi underlying boy who had tions in one reason is because our edt tion system does not the vocatio fitted, help boys definitely to cover best they are If a haby refuses to enjoy nny of vegetables it may i kind be necessary to begin by mixing them with cereal, The nmounts of cereal re. ixture can growing girl find this year's feminin y nge will e style a fluttering features of the mode are well to the prejunior aid to grace, new adapted miss. There is the : graceful bertha which veils an angu lar shoulder, or treats kindly an over ned nnnee The soft full devel: nrm pess of circular skirts and arr: ments of | features Ures, fed | Martha Agricu d that the thore iv » white Is rp diges Pr. hramer tural college white, if according to so} $ ich it Is served, is used hy Chic for Summer Sports For summer sports wear there Is nothing smarter than a light-colored sleeveless cotton dress, a short fitted jacket, darker in tone, and a brimmed hat to match the jacket. Seams at the side-back and inverted tucks give the jacket a curve and fit which is be comingly youthful as well as fash. ton.right, Pictured here the dress is in white cotton broadcloth attractive. ly relieved with a brown and white gingham jacket and hat, Black Chiffon Is Liked for Dressy Occasion: Nothing quite takes the place ol the black frock In the wardroha of the sophisticated woman, but some times these gowns are a little trying and harsh, This, however, cannot be sald of the black chiffon or geor gette dress for afternoon or Informal dining, as they combine the chic of the all black gown with a softly fem inline air that Is Immedsely intriguing. (5, 1930, Western Newspaper Union.) The world which clouds thy soul with doubt Is but a carpet Inside out, It's when we view these shreds and ends We know not what intends: Bo when on earth things look but odd, They're working out some schems of God What now seem random strokes, will there In ordér and design appear, Then shall we praise what here we spurned: For then the carpet will be turned. ~— Metropolitan Life, SUMMERY DISHES the whole As the fresh mushrooms come into flelds, there are many ways of using them as a garnish and flavor for different dishes. Spinach Mold. — Cook spinach until tender in just the water that clings to the leaves, A very few minutes will gpin- if cooked in a large utensil with cook ach vegetable destroys not only Its flavor and vitamin i color which is but so attractive In any dish, Drain and chop fine, season well with butter, salt and a few dashes of pepper. Pack content, also takes out the over water, Unmold and 6ill the ter with: Creamed tablespoonfu cen- Mushrooms. —Melt three four tablespoonf spoonful add two cu into slices mush and sauted ir eggs cut of fresh sliced beeh five rooms tha butter for No one has this minutes, yet refused spinach served In charming Serve very hot. way. Aspic Jelly Salad.—Sonk one table- de il of gelatin in cold water using Heat or canned chicken tin and Pour as beeg one pint ool place ome firm i on crisp nter with cab ith strips of Melba Sandwiches. —Fi1 fr three dozen mayonnal slices of graham green er in pairs, 1 spread with cupful of lemon juice, cool, strain and grated rind may water, people freeze, ittle of the be added which will give a flavor most 3 vey Pr ¢ the sugar and Now that our strawberry season be- is a favorite when frozen in ice cream, Strawberry Ice Cream.—Wash and Sprin- of sugar mash and let stand several hours then squeeze through a jelly bag. Mix one and one-half cupfuls of rich cream with one and one-half cup- fuls of milk the whites of four well. beaten eggs and one-eighth teaspoon- ful of salt. Turn into a freezer and freeze to a mush, using three parts of crushed ice to one part of salt, then add the fruit juice and finish freezing. The whites of the stiffly beaten eggs may be added with the juice, making the frozen mixture more delicate when finished. Serve in tall glasses with a large unhulled berry on top. Orange lce~—~Make a sirup of a quart of water and two cupfuls of sugar as for lemon ice, add two cup- fuls of orange juice, one-fourth cup- ful of lemon juice, the grated rind of two oranges, Cool, strain and freeze, Sorbet.—Make a sirup by bolling two cupfuols each of sugar and water together for fifteen minutes, then add one can of shredded or grated pine. apple, one-half cupful of lemon julce, one and one-third cupfuls of orange Juice and one quart of spring water, Freeze to a mush. Serve in frappe glasses, Coffee Ice Cream.—Secald one and one-half cupfuls of milk with one third of a cupful of finely ground cof- fee, strain through a double cheese cloth, add one cupful of sugar, the beuten yolks of four eggs, one-fourth teaspoonful of salt; cook over water until thick, adding one-fourth eupful of sugar and one cupful of cream: cool, add three more cupfuls of cream and freeze, Verve garnished with maraschino cherries, Nerese May wert.
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