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.