Chouie Margaret Weymouth Jackson am dh Copyright by Bobba-Merrill Co. WNU Service SUBURB NBS SE NR RRR FFF EFI N TFET rN YoY essen sre REE REERRSY CHAPTER IX—Continued a - At the hospital an interne was very Dusinesslike, “Her husband has Identified her. Yes, he Is with her now. No, you can't <come in—well, only for a moment.” There lay Ernestine in the stiff, long- sleeved, hospital shirt, her hair black between her white face and the white pillow, a nurse beside her counting her respiration, Will crouching there, his face against the covers, Her eyes were opened, flushed with fever. She was talking—pleading—in delirium, Ernestine, the darling sister—in this dreadful place! “You will all have to go,” said the nurse, snapping shut her old-fashioned watch and darting a resentful look at the Interne. “We cannot have any. body in this ward after hours. Mr, “Todd, you will have to go.” “Ernestine,” cried Lillian, tine sald quickly: “Will's coming. 1 tell you my name is Briceland B-r-i-c-e-l-a-n-d—1 think there's more. The bus ran over me-— it leaped at me-" “She wus crushed? exclaimed Lil. dian, and the nurse sald: “No-—she's just delirious, “Can't we have her moved to a pri. vate room? €Cap't we her? It was Loring now. Will had lifted his face, and he stared at Ernestine and gently smoothed her cheek, while her bright eyes turned on him, “Papa—you must find worry,” she urged him, “l can't say about moving her. You'll have to the floor doctor. She Is very ill to be moved—please eave the ward now.” definite. and Ernes- Please go.” move Will—he'll see Training behind her, and The nurse was and authority were they withdrew. Even Will had to {eave her, but Ernestine made such an outcry that the nurse permitted him to come back until Loring should make arrangements to move Ernestine. Lillian found herself in a tiny re- <eption room furnished barely. Loring Had gone to the office, Mrs. Bennett to the phone booth downstairs. For a moment Lillian thought she was go- ing to be sick. She dung desperately to the arms of the chair. She was the only woman in the room. A black man stood near her, twisting a cloth «<ap in his hands, his lips moving soundlessly. There was another man, shabby, unclean, suffering in patient silence, and they were Joined by a third and then a fourth vague quiet figure, Lillilan's feelings were not of pity Hut revulsion. She could not bear it— Ernestine here with the scum of the earth—mamma's baby—their beauty— in this place that smelled of lysol, that was as full of the sounds of sickness and suffering as purgatory is full of groans, This place was hell, it was nightmare, There came from the streets the clang of an ambulance— and a stretcher moved in the hall Loring was beside her, beckoning. “We are taking her to the Presby- terian hospital. They'll have a room and a nurse for her when we get there. Also a good doctor.” Lillian followed him in confusion. The ambulance she had heard was for Ernestine. The taxi threaded after It JSirough streets, and again there wns delay. Mrs. Bennett left them to zo back home, Vill was with Ernes- tine and siret jut now, at last, a small freshly painted room, as les #n ns a scalded dish, a high nar. row hed, by an open window, an elee- tric fan white dressing table, a «hair or two, and a graduate cool. There was a the the cher, on a nurse, capable, doctor, t00, Lillian stood just inside the door, The doctor was silent for a long time, examining Ernestine, reading the copy of the chart that had been sent with her, “Uremea-—and some albumen,” he sald as though any of them knew what he meant. “The baby will be premature-—if we can get her through her confinement now swiftly, she'll be all right. When did you say she was expectant?” Will named the date. The doctor nodded with satisfaction as though his worst fears were confirmed, “Well, it's a nasty case,” he sald, “but perhaps we shall pull her through, Miss Nana"-—he turned to the nurse with a rapid fire of Instructions and requests and laid his coat aside, “Now-—there's nothing any of you ean do but give us elbow room and qulet, She's already had two convulsions. When the next comes we shall be ready for her—" The horrid word shot through Lilllan's mind like a sword thrust, No-—no--only idiot chil. dren—only diseased and terrible peo- ple—only the poor and helpless were so afflicted. Not Ernestine-—oh, God not Ernestine! The doctor put them out with de tiberate firmness, allowing Will to stay, “It you go acroas the street, there's a nice little hotel there. Tell the clerk I sent vou, and go to bed. Miss Nana will call you if there's any change, or If she's delivered. The bat- tle is ours, now.” Lillian knew that it was ns hard for Loring as it was for her to accept this dismissal and leave Will behind, WIll was so futile! He would have left her in that other dreadful place, In sllence they crossed the street, registered at the hotel, and were as- signed a room. They moved about in silent misery, looking out of the win- dows at the walls of the hospital. “Did you know Will lost his job?" Loring hesitated. “Yes,” he sald at last. “I knew it." “But why— “I didn't know how Ernestine would take it, if I butted In. 1 thought she would let us know If she needed us.” “You know how proud she is—" Loring moved restlessly. “I think I'll go back to the hospital, You stay here. Ne need for both of us to go. I'll eall you if you're needed.” Weary and confused, Lilllan took off her clothes, bathed in the tiny bath. room and lay down across the bed, partly dressed again, Her whole thought was strained at first toward the hospital and the possible issue of Ernestine’s illness. Then her thoughts turned and turned, from Loring to Ernestine, to Will, to mamma and papa and Ernestine and’ back to mam- ma again, Mamma had allowed papa and Loring to dictate to her about Will's father. That had really sep- arated Ernestine from them long ago. They had offered Ernestine their love and help only at the price of betrayal of her marriage. Tears came to Llil- lian, and eventually, tired and sad, she fell asleep. Daylight streaming over her bed wakened her. She rose, dressed, went across to the hospital and asked for 1 She Sat There and Watched Him Pre. pare Supper. wondering as she did so whether should have asked for Will, or not she Loring. Will came to her in the reception room, looking at her from dull heavy eyes, silent, waiting. “How is Ernestine, Will?" him softly. “She is still very fl," and added as an sfterthought: baby is a girl” He was exhausted, unshaved, sad and awry. As he stood there looking vaguely about him he seemed to Lli- lian the most forlorn and helpless hu- man being she had ever seen, She pitied him, but he vexed her, “Oh, Will," she sald impulsively, “you shouldn't have allowed Ernestine to have this other baby-—so soon, when you weren't prepared. You should have protected her.” He avert- ed his face, but she saw his flush, “I've got to go back upstairs,” he sald, and added, as he turned to the door, “Loring has already lectured me on birth control. He's left the hos- pital. You must have missed him.” Lillian was ashamed. She had not intended to say such a thing. It was none of their business, really, At the hotel she stopped at the desk for the Key, but Loring had it. She went up in the quiet elevator. When she opened the unlocked door of their room and went in, Loring was lying back in a chair by the open window, his hat on the floor beside him, his collar and tie lying upon it. He was staring straight before him, and when Lillian came to his side he looked up at her with a piteous expression, For a moment, standing there, a dart of such pain went through Lil lian that she cried out, This was what Ernestine could do to Loring. She knew, with a gripping pang of conviction, that nothing that could ever happen to her would cause him such anguish--such rout, This was what Will meant when he sald that he knew what was the matter with Lor. ing! She fell on her knees beside him, sobbing, and laid her face upon his knee. His hand fell on her shoul: ders. He mistook her fear and pain, “She'll be all right, Lillian,” he whis- pered. “God grant she will! The doe. tor said that a day or two will tell. It's uremic poisoning.” He sat forward in his chair, and his clenched hand fell on one knee, while the other arm held her convulsively, “Thank God you weren't there. Thank God you will never know how she suffered. Will fainted once, and the nurse brought me into the room, They were fighting death like a physi. cal foe. 1 helped to hold her—" fe gave a stifled ery and tore the but. tons from his shirt as he expanded she asked he answered, “The his Tung agalyat the crushing four that lay upon him, “Oh, Lillian,” he cried to his wife, “1 don't see how she can llve—after last night, The doctor thinks she will, and so does Doctor Grey. He's with her now. But 1 don't see how she can survive that struggle. But one thing Is settled for us, for ever.” [le pulled her tear-wet face up from his knee, and looked at her with blazing eyes, “You and I will have to be enough. No child Is worth such £n- guish, No life Is worth—death, No children—for us.” She hid her face against him, arms held him close, “1 don't care, If only you will love me." He pressed her to him but his eyes had flown to the windows of the hos- pital, and she felt a tremor pass through his big frame. *» . . - » - * Ernestine stayed In the hospital un- til the baby was a month old. Will borrowed the money from Mr. Poole and pald the hospital bill, pald the nurse and the two doctors, the day she was to be discharged. Loring pro- tested In vain. The removal to the expensive private hospital had been his suggestion--it was he who got the nurse, who got the two doctors; he had planned to meet all these ex. penses, jut Wil was deaf to him, He was going to pay Ernestine’'s hos. pital bill, he declared, if he had to rob a bank. What business was it of lor. ing's? It was Wii's wife— Will's child. Legully the debt was Todd's. There was nothing that could be done about it, but the argument increased the bad hlood between the men. Ernestine wanted to go to her own home, she told Lillian, Mamma was hurrying back from Europe. The house at the inke was closed. Lillian remonstrated with Ernestine's determination to go back to the house out In Mayfair. “But what will you do?” she asked, and her face grew red. “Will isn't even working.” “Yea, I am,” sald Will. “I started today. Mr, Poole is going to open an independent studio, and I am golng to work for him. He's got hold of the copyrights to his old strip and we are going to syndicate it ourselves. It will bring us in a lot of I'm to get fifty dollars a begin with and we'll be all right.” Lilllan's dismay was not diminished, by this news, com. bination of WHI and Mr. wae worse than nothing, It appeared to her. “I don't know what mamma will say,” she protested feebly, but neither Ermestine nor Wil seemed to be moved by that, It was a wonderful day when Ernes- tine went home. All the way home In the taxi Will held the baby In one arm and Emestine in the other, and his face } when at Her money. week to increased, The Poole was shining with joy inst they stood in their little kite! she weak and trembling In his arms, He was starved for her, but he kissed her gently, got the rocker and filled it with cushions and placed it by the open kitchen door, She sat there and watched him prepare supper, “Will,” she said, when they had eaten, and he had closed the door against the fall dusk, “you're like you used to be. You're like you were that day we met upon the street, when I first fell In love with you, Tell me, what is it? “The new job, I guess. I'm crazy about it, Ernestine. In the first place, to be working again is good-—and to be working for John Poole.—~And then, Emestine, I think we're going to do it.—I believe we'll make a success a big one™ His enthusiasm was boundiess. While he washed the dishes he talked to her, and then they put the chil- dren to bed, and he drew Ernestine onto his knees, “Tell me, Ernestine—it was an un- godly business—but you aren't sorry, are you? Now that you're both home again—you're glad got her— aren't you?” They sat looking at the baby, Will pressed his cheek against Ernestine’s shoulder, “Tell me” nen, we've he implored her, Ernestine understood his need for assurance. He was still suffering from the humiliation LilHan and Loring had heaped on him. “They said—I shouldn't have al. lowed—allowed,” he exclaimed sharply at the word “1 never thought about it." “We're married, aren't we? asked Ernestine, and as his bright look ques- tioned her she shook her head a little, “That's all,” she sald. "That's the answer. I'm your wife—I love you—of course I'm glad” He kissed her passionately, Jt seemed so long since she had heen In his arms like this—close, close, “Oh, Ernéstine,” he said, “I don't deserve you. The future is uncertain, But If ever a wife deserved a good husband, you do. But, sweetheart, it's hard, it's been harder for you than for me; don't think I don't know it. But it's been worth the risk, hasn't it? “As long as we hold together,” she whispered. “As long as we love.” And he poured his kisses upon her thin flushed face, “I'll make up to you for everything ~-you'll never be sorry,” he told her. And she lay against him, yielding, tremulous and In love, forgetting everything else for him as she had forgotten again and again, (TO BE CONTINUED) Candle Made to Fit Any candle may be made to fit a candlestick if dipped into hot water long enough to soften the wax, Success Suggestion “Do what you like and like what you do afterward,” says a correspond. ent in Farm and Fireside, # Printed Chiffon in Leading Role Charming in Line and Tint, Correct to Wear From Noon to Evening. Smart for daytime wear In town and for informal evenings, chiffon suits take a leading role in the fash- lon play this summer, observes a fash- lon writer in the New York World, They're usually called suits; though, since they consist of a dress and jacket, ensemble might seem the more appropriate term, Never mind. A cos- tume by any other name could be as chie, but you know what & halo en- circles “suit” this season, These chiffons are charming in line and tint, They are the coulest things under the sun, They are correct for wear from noon to moonrise—or until the party breaks up and goes the way of all flesh, toward scrambled eggs and coffee, One (mportant new collection of French chiffon sults has as its star offering a particulariy delightful printed affair in black and white, it flowers overlapping all over It, daisies and flat chrysanthemums and zinnias and petunias, Or maybe they aren't petunias, but something beyond botany, These various are traced in black on white chiffon, The effect Is shadowy, so your companion will probably say, gray is lovely on you!” The Jacket Is simple, quite short, oven, and finished all around with a nurrow band of self material, The of the same chiffon, worn over white crepe, is much more elaborate, It is two-tiered, the bottom tier end. Ing In shallow scallops, the first tier with a row of the appliqued tlowers Chanel loves, the small flow- ers and whatnots cut out of the print, has poses luncheon “That dress, some of Black Chiffon Printed in Beige and Gay Red Flowers, There are short sleeves which follow the skirt's example in decoration, end- ing with shallow scallops and having a row of the appliqued flowers above, midway of the sleeve. The same cut- ensemble, from a different collection, has a pattern of leaves In dim red and two shades of helige, printed on black chiffon. Again the skirt is two-tiered, the flou flaring gently. but without the elabora. tion of scallops or applique. There are, however, several points of special interest in this, a Lelong creation, The Jacket, which is rather long, carries a waist-deep that is divided the middle of There is a gracefully high on the cape at the back of neck, A flattering collar n softness to the neckline of Its belt being of the narrow sporis leather, but covered Another notable neces cape the back the tie gives the dress, is novel, type, in rest of the suit. It is an edd combi. nation, very trim, as befits a suit helt, yet soft, as an accompaniment to chif. fon should be. The accessories might be in either beige or black, Collar and Cuffs Add a Dressier Appearance frocks are not new, the latest versions are smartly different. It is the colinrs and cuffs which give the 2nsemble a dressier appearance. Matching sleeveless Jackets or short coats and skirts in crepe or a suitable cotton are attractive and youthful when worn with the feminine sort of self-colored batiste blouse, embroidered swiss or handkerchief linen made with short sleeves and short ruffled collars. Sleeveless pique frocks topped with sleeveless pique coats look very smart. Chiffon Appliqued in Design on Net Liked If you have become a bit tired of the ubiquitous lace frock, the clever effect of chiffon appliqued in a design on net will offer a welcome variation of the new sheer frock with patterned effect. The cape and flounces of a new frock are adorned with this new type of trimming. An impression of a cut-out pattern is the result of the applique which Is superimposed upon slik net. THE PARENTS’ MAGAZINE How many parents-—even the best calmly discuss with others, especially with strangers, the peculiarities, excel- lences, or defects of their children in the presence of the children them- selves | jut consider the effect upon the child of hearing Mmself discussed. If it is no worse than embarrassment, that is bad enough. To dwell upon a child's abnormalities or peculiarities of any sort is particularly likely to have ua bad effect, If all the peace talk and all the na- tional and international energy ex- pended for better understanding is not to become an empty farce in the course of the next 0 years, the roung things In the sun-suit stage must be helped to carry in their hearts the dream that the mature world is now cherishing. Somehow the concept of trust and friendship for the peoples ed and nurtured. And what an enor. mous job that is; for band in hand with International understanding must 80 a strong sense of race tolerance and respect, which is of the hardest has ever set one lessons civilized man himself to master, Of what use to feed youngsters a anced diet if they are to counteract that balance by a consump- * sundaes and what-not between meals? On the oth- er hand, even the most hygienic parent must face the facts, and we cannot ignore the presence of the soda-water fountain in our midst. forbid her children to patronize It at all? Should she allow carefully ba tion of oversweet “pops, them to visit in in moderation? » to do? P 1 r her to supply a the soda what is erhinps the hest way oun CO ! ter attraction hy establishing a bever age shelf In the refrigerator at home. Faced with such competition, water loses this true if the children are allowed to shar homemade refreshments young friends and Wher of dust and smoke In open exposure to the sur it is possible to transmit through certain types of ar that leave some of ultraviolet ras etrate an its potency. (The s of the sun do not nary pane.) not shine, artificial light in fresh alr may be Den in i ordi sun does combination with sub he used sat. a supplemeniar All vepet: a sirainer or ied un voluntary deal of feeling hles should be put through gleve or be finely divi til the child Yegins to show n is a good « mothers that bables s to masticate, but mastication ig an in- movement which the child de among stinctive for it. Most children months old need ained, and it is no disg id or hizx family ground until his year. That is far better than upset. ting his digestion by sllowing him te swallow unchewed pleces of food. ready eighteen tables st them second of-hearing individuals is avall- able at the various local through a national service called the Volta burean, Washington. for hard bureau, guided. There is a tend. down to work if properly ency to settle a good job, Popular Headgear for the Long Summer Days Top-~The farfamed visca beret, a white knitted silk which is much in demand for town and country wear. Center—A pretty white, woven straw, trimmed with grosgrain ribbon. Bot. tom--A plain but attractive Panama straw, quite becoming to members of the younger set. ‘The KITCHEN CABINET — — (D, 1930, Western Newspaper U Bion.) The foundation of education con- slets of training a child to work, to love work, to put the energy of his entire being into work: to do that work which develops his body, mind and soul to that work most needed for the elevation of mankind. Parker. do WHAT TO EAT A simple dessert well made and daintily served gives just the finishing g touch to a plain dinner. Here are a few desserts thas may be helpful In planning a lunch- eon and the din- ner menus: On baking day when the oven Is too well occupled, prepare and a pastry shell or two, or bake shells on patty ting fer individual These will keep well for a few and it will be found most help- ful to put In a filling of lemon, with a meringue and have a in a very few minutes. These shells may be filled with crushed fruit, topped with whipped cream, or they may be filled with a butterscotch filling or chocolate, thus having any kind that seems desirable or Is well liked, rill be ano oth er filling but a few moments to not bake the pies, days cover dessert The following w that takes prepare; Marshmallow and Fruit Pudding.— Soak one-fourth of a cupful of can- cherries and pineapple cut into pieces elther in the pineapple juice or any fruit juice either canned or fresh for an hour or more. Use cherries and own ferred. ( maraschino sirup if pre- of marsh- each, jeat until con- thal their 1 4 y hoe rA11r 1 ut one-half pound maliows Into six then a with a he marsh- fectioner”’ ul of pecan fold the asiry cups. A 3 Dainty Luncheon Descert.—Spread round butter crackers with marsh- in the center of pineapple 1 the whites egRs ur : dry, add cupful of powdered sugar pastry pe this the the meringue sranug- Beat stiff Or Orange ms and with a tube pl around cracker, then set a rose of Ta . prtor Cry pedelt edge of iated sugar and the oven. SUGAR, SPICE, ALL THINGS NICE The delicious cinnamon roll which may be or pecan made with one base is a most delicious bread to serve on many occasions, Cinnamon Rolls, —Take one cupful of scalded milk, add two table- spoonfuls of suger, one-half tea- four tablespoonfuls Cool lukewarm and add an yeast cake water. Mix with sufficient flour to handie and knead thoroughly, then allow the bread to rise until treble its bulk. Cut down and fold and let rise again. When light roll Into a sheet one-half inch In thickness and spread with melted butter, sprinkle with sugar and cinnamon. Roll like a Jelly roll and slice into one-inch slices. Place in a baking pan and allow to rise again. Bake in a hot oven twenty minutes. For the pecan rolis place a gener ous portion of butter and brown sugar with a half cupful of pecans in the bottom of the pan. Place the rolls and bake when light Turn upside down and serve, Spiced Hot Cross Buns—Prepare the above mixture, make the rolls into rounds after adding one-half cupful of currants or a mixture of currants and raisins, a teaspoonful of cinnamon and ene-half teaspoonful of allspice. Cut a cross on the top of each with a sharp knife just before baking. Spice Cake.—Sift two and one-half cupfuls of pastry flour with one-half teaspoonful of soda, one teaspoonful of baking powder, one-fourth teaspoon- ful each of allspice, nutmeg, mace and one-half teaspoonful of cinnamon. Sift three times, Cream one-half cupful of butter, add two cupfuls of gifted brown sugar and craam together until light and fluffy. Add two eggs well beaten and the flour mixture alternately with one cupful of sour milk. Beat well after each addition and bake in a greased tin eight by eight inches. Bake fifty minutes, There are so many short cuts and much saving of time that one may use in preparing dishes. When making a covered pie one day prepare enough pastry for a pastry shell which may be baked at the same time, The shell may be used two days later, if care fully kept, with a filling of lemon, but. terscotch or fresh fruit topped with cream, The serving of a green vegetable at both Mincheon and dinner or supper menls is necessary to keep the body in good condition, Spinach, chard, broccoll may all be grown, with let. tuce, radishes and peas in the back. yard garden, Nerese Mogwai
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