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WEYMOUTH
JACKSON
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CHAPTER XIII—Continued
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Ernestine rose abruptly and went to
tier room to change her dress before
the children returned to climb upon
fier. Her mind went reluctantly to
Will, as though forced against itself
to consider dangers. Perhaps he
jeeded mothering. He was subject to
periods of nervous and mental depres.
sion because he could not remember
that he had a body long enough to
take care of it. She wondered if he
were worried about money. They were
spending it like water, but there
seemed so much of It.
The children came In, rosy and
{aughing from their walk, and crowded
upon her. She loved to have them
close. They chattered eagerly as she
sat down with them to thelr simple,
appetizing supper, the nursemald smil-
ing and talking to her with a pretty
deference. She and Will had dinner
together, later, after the children had
fiad half an hour with their father,
and gone up to bed. But Will did not
come in at their bedtime as he usually
did. Disappointed, they finally trailed
off up the stairs, and Ernestine won-
dered if she had missed WIIL
“Has Mr. Todd been in, Molly?”
“He's in the garden, ma'am,”
maid replied.
Ernestine went out through the din-
ing room windows, across the tiled
west porch and paused at the garden
steps, to stare. Will stood about fifty
feet away from her, leaning against
the corner of the garage, his hat off,
his head tilted back and his eyes fixed
on the one tree that stood on the lot,
a tall narrow poplar tree.
Ernestine had never seen him look
ilke this. The slight habitual twist of
satire that had become set on his
mouth was gone. Kis lips were re-
faxed and full, like a child's. His
black eyes, always so bright and alert,
were soft now and strangely luminous
in his pale thin face. And in his coun-
tenance was such yearning, such
poignant beauty, that Ernestine could
scarcely forbear crying out.
He had not noticed her, and silently
she turned back to the house and si-
tently closed the door behind her, For
what was Will hankering there in the
dusk? What did he worship? Some-
thing she did not know, see nor feel,
Something beyond her. Again, in the
absorption of life he had slipped away
from her, into some secret path he had
to follow alone, Again his mind had
escaped while his body only remained
by her side. The poplar tree—he was
ailing, as he had ailed before.
She gathered herself together with
a spiritual gesture. She strengthened
herself, Something was imminent,
something was to befall them. She
realized with horror that they had not
saved a cent, in all thelr new pros.
perity. She was confronted with the
necessity to cease her butterfly whirl
ing and turn squirrel galn. For
Will's run of luck would Inevitably end
in disaster of some kind that she could
not even forsee.
Thinking of the longing and the
sorrow of his face, Ernestine forgot
for the moment how but a short time
ago she had loved her house and
blessed her possessions. Was there
nothing she could do for Will? Noth.
ing. She had learned this hard fact
once, and let her not forget It now,
Was he always to be lonely? Could
not her body encompass him, her love
enfold him? At times she could be
close against his heart, At other
times he would be remote from her,
from all of them, Her spirit erled out
in protest against the sense of aliena-
tion that was sweeping down upon her,
Her throat ached bitterly.
She shook herself. This was non-
sense. Because Will stared at a tree
and a star she was invoking disaster.
He had come In early and gone out In
his garden to enjoy the evening, and
the light had made him look wan,
But these thin mental comments
died unheeded. Nothing could shake
the deep fatalistic conviction that had
taid itself upon her heart,
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Ernestine watched Will during the
winter months that followed without
making much headway In her efforts
to understand him. His abstraction
at times was so intense that he moved
like a somnambulist. The children
bloomed. Peter was a tall strong boy
with a lively mind and body. It was
evident that Elaine would be able to
start with her lessons In another year.
The baby would be three in the sum-
mer, and he was every one's darling
Mamma was always sending him things
from New York. She could not shop
without remembering him.
But none of Ernestine’s joy in her
<hildren could compensate for Will's
strangeness, Sometimes he came out
of his absorption and was feverishly
bright and active. He was guarded
with her, and put on an artificial non-
<halance, She accepted this casually,
without the irritation that had almost
disrupted them before. His whole alr
and manner were the alr and manner
of a man who is pursuing a secret love
affair, but Erdestine knew that Will's
grief was not so simple as that.
Nevertheless, she began In a qulet
unobtrusive way to spy upon him, be.
tog compelled by the need to know
the
something more, His habits away
from home were revealed to her by
small patient inquiries,
He spent every morning at the Sun
office and kept his strip well ahead,
did his work in an orderly, workman-
like manner, In the afternoons It was
the common bellef that he went to the
small outside studio where a young-
ster named Hobbs worked on the
movie cartoons for him, He spent
some time there, and then either
played bridge at the Press club, or at
one or another of the clubs on Mich.
igan boulevard where men had money
and leisure to spend around the card
tables In the late winter afternoons,
One day, downtown shopping, Ernes-
tine went over to this movie studlo,
Pe
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i
The Office Was Empty and She En.
tered and Shut the Door Behind
Her.
but the boy greeted her Inquiry for
Mr. Todd with such astonishment that
she knew Will was seldom there,
“But the movies?"
“He comes in once a week or so and
works all afternoon. He can do more
work in an hour than anybody 1 ever
saw. We keep them up, Mrs. Todd”
“I'm sure you do," sald Ernestine,
smiling at him, She talked to him
for a while about his work and told
him how Will had received his traln-
ing doing just such chores for John
Poole, was little more than a
legend to this youngster, she saw, but
he was interested and flattered by her
confidences.
Ernestine went away, filled with con-
viction, without more logical reason
than the Instruction of instinct. Li-
lian had seen Will on North Clark
street. He was not spending his time
at the outside studio, He was prob.
ably not playing cards as much as
she thought.
He had opened the old studio where
he and John Poole had worked for
over two years and he was working
there now, nearly every afternoon and
sometimes probably at night. What
was he doing?
She thought she would ask him, but
that evening when he came In she was
just coming down the stairs with
Elaine, naked, on her arm. She was
going to the kitchen to get some olive
oll to warm, for she had found the
skin dry on the child's arms.
Will had come In the front door and
stood, drawing his scarf from within
the collar of his great coat, staring up
at her. His face flashed at her and he
sald Imperiously: .
“Stand still.”
She stopped, In amazement, and
stood poised on the stairs, the child
on her arm, her simple house dress
falling against her long limbs, and
Will looked up at them with concen-
tration, power In his eyes. After a
strange Interval he began to fold the
silk scarf about his throat, to button
his coat, to draw his gloves over his
fingers, still staring at them, and then
without a word, but with a smile of
excitement, he turned and left the
house,
It was very late when he returned,
but Ernestine was awake, waiting for
1
Poole
him.
room, and his face was like a drunk-
ard's, flushed and relaxed and happy.
her passionately.
“Will—where have you been?
are you so strange?" she asked him,
For answer he pressed his lips
against her throat, he put her short
dark halr back frem
saw,
“You're so lovely,” he sald, “so
beautiful, Ernestine. Not even the old
masters have a face as lovely as yours,
Your eyes—your eyes are sad, my
sweet, Why are you sad? He
derfully.
Ernestine felt as if her heart would
break.
“Will—tell me. What alls you? she
implored him, “You haven't
me for weeks and weeks—all winter
you haven't even seen me, and now-——
you come in like this”
He moved away from her... He was
erect, triumphant, under the Impulse
of strong excitement.
“I've done it, Ernestine,
“What have you done?”
He made a gesture with his fingers
—a stroke in their air, her with
brush or pencil.
“I've made something new and dif
ferent. Something I've wanted a long
time. I'll tell you about it some day
when I'm ready. But now, don’t ques
tion me. Just love me. As you
to, Ernestine. Can't you come to m¢
as you used to come? My love, and
mine alone?
eit
used
He wooed her, and she ylelded t«
him, finding an instant’'s hurting joj
in his old eagerness—his old flaring
enthusiasm. This tide of human love
was not new to her. Its sameness was
like an enchantment, But after he
was sleeping by her side, she wep!
secretly, He was so strange. Even
in his ardor, deep honesty warned he
that not her beauty, not her love, not
her deurness had allured him-
been impelled toward her by
within himself. His deep and secret
springs of artistry awakening
stirring. Solitary even In his pas
sion and his love.
he
somet
were
The next morning she rose with hes
heart hardened with determination
hunted out among her possessions the
old office key he had given her, so fong
ago. She took the bus and went bach
to Erie street, walked the old familia)
way again and came to the old office
fitted her key In the lock and opened
the door. The office was emply, and
she entered and shut the door behind
her.
The light in the place was fine. 2
room,
and stool. Ernestine moved to thls
hunt for Will's secret. She had n«
more scruple about it than she would
have had If he had been her son ant
in some trouble she must learn abom
In the middie of the drawing board
on white rice paper planed down witl
tacks at the corners, was a sketch
Only a few strong lines In charcoal
She saw herself, coming down ths
stairs, the naked baby on her arm, om
hand at the balustrade.
lines of her limbs bore a subtle am
flowing exaggeration. It was beautl
ful. It was alive. It moved and in it
motion were poetry and sound. It wa
new, work of a kind she had neve
seen before. But she understood it
work had authority,
else had made a picture like this. Un
derstanding filled her. Last night
Will had not loved her.
told her truly. It was this picture-
this bright mental image of woman
hood that he had loved, had taken ints
his arms and caressed.
“No, no,” she whispered.
morbid. It 1s I whom Will loves,
only his way."
On the corner of the sheet, like
gignature, were the round har
splotches of tears, irnestine wept
tog, standing there and looking at this
new work and thinking of Will—an
the Todd cats,
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
“That
Poland to many travelers Is a coun-
try unknown. Yet to the tourist it of-
fers much In the great variety of scen-
ery, the richness and color of its na-
tive peasantry, and the charm and
beauty of its myriad churches and an-
cient ruins. [ts art treasures, its archi
tecture, its numerous museums, com-
pare favorably with those of other Eu-
ropean countries,
Warsaw, the capital and largest city,
has a population of over 1,000,000 per-
sons and a history which dates back
to the Thirteenth century. Since that
time it has seen many changes and
events which have helped to make the
history of Europe. During the latter
part of the Eighteenth century the eity
experienced a period of great splendor.
It was then one of the largest citles
of Burope and It became the very cen-
ter of artistic, literary and scientific
activity, and had also a brilliant court
of life. Gracow, only a few hours’ ride
from the capital, 1s really the heart of
Poland, although Warsaw is the seal
of government,
Beer as a Cosmetic
Gallo-Romans were almost modere
in their use of cosmetics, They recog
nized the value of cold water to re.
fresh the skin, To preserve the com
plexion, however, they bathed the face
in the froth of beer or with chalk dis
solved In vinegar. The eyebrows they
dyed with a juice takon from the sea
pike. Auburn or yellow hair was
greatly admired In women and those
who were unfortunately and unavo!d-
ably brunette either limed the halr,
dyed It, or wore wigs.—Detroit News,
Fur Wraps Shown
for Winter Wear
in Win-
some Designs Displayed;
Muffs to Be Used.
| Advance Models
i
winter mode is the
{ wrap of fur. It will be oniy a short
{ time betore we shall, alas, actually
{ be weuring these stunning wraps and
| Jackets, observes a fashion writer in
| the Cleveland P’luin Dealer,
How the fur wrap has changed!
Not so very long ago It was a slightly
{ ungainly garment designed to keep Its
wearer warn while not imparting
{ the least bit of style. Today It has
all the flexibility of the wrap of
| cloth, with the added note of luxuri-
| ousness, a note which the latter gar-
| ment, unless it is elaborately trimmed
with fur, cannot attain,
The use of flat furs such as caracul,
| krimmed and lamb have greatly alded
{ the fur designer in his quest for line
| and style. These flat furs are us
{ easily manipulated as cloth, lending
| themselves delightfully to the present
silhouette of fitted lines and
flares,
A chile
An advanced
| day
model of lapin in a blue-
gruy was fashioned with a bloused
back and a skirt which flared slight.
i ly, the narrow belt of kid confining It
to the natural waistline,
Brown Is of course a favored color
for the winter wrap of fur, and there
Is enough variety in (ts lovely
{ to keep it fron becoming monotonous,
There are cufe nolr and
mauve browns as well as those which
are black snd
verge on beige und tan
ton, is of
the full and
As to furs
there are caraculs and Persian
tones
chocolate,
almost those which
Black,
in hoth
frock.
importance
the fall
employed,
lambs
in black, gray and brown, with beaver
and nutria for the
wrap, Mole Is dyed In
colored effects, while
great
wrap
the
or street
hinck and
Alaskan seal in
sports
a deep hrown is also sponsored,
Hudson Seal Coat Longer Than Last
Year; Has Greater Lap.
Fox In blue, beige, brown and black
for trimmings, while
and dyed furs such as
The length
of the fur wrap is varied. There is
the short coat which allows a gener
ous length of skirt to show, as well
as the more formal wrap which
| marten, fitch
There are little hiplength jackets
there are jJaquets of fingertip
it would seem that muffs will have
They
made an appearance last season but
They will be accompanied by neck.
suit.
companied with muffs which match
the fur collars, the little football or
pillow muff being the preferred type,
mull
or not, as fancy dictates,
Says New Fashion Edict
Long skirts are oot the only new
method of concealing woiaen's legs
which have so long been exposed to
view—and eriticism,
Fashion dictators, according to
Woman's Home Companion, have add-
ed a device which tends toward the
old decree: “The queen of Spain has
no legs.” The new, dull colored stock.
ings is the first step. For now the
shine that used to attract attention
to silk stockings is no longer smart,
for daytime, at least. A flat, luster
less effect is achieved by knitting
with twisted thread or a special
stitch. Some women are reversing
their stockings to Zain the same ef-
fect.
In other ways stockings are becom
ing more inconspicuous, even in color,
Dark browns and off blacks are high
in the autumn mode.
Pink-Blue Motif
A white organdie with pink dots Is
made over a pale blue slip and has
a pink and blue grosgrain sash and
bows on the puff sleeves. [Mink and
blue kid makes suitable slippers for it.
THE PARENTS MAGAZINE
no right to
teach their children
creative, to have Initiative,
they are nnxlious to
dren do creative things at home,
education Is not something a child
constructs In a schoolhouse, and
which he stores In a locker there un.
tli such time as he 8 ready to leave
both and school and go to
work In the world on his own Iinitia-
tive. Teachers live in one world, and
parents in another, jut the school
child has to live in both, and few
teachers and almost no parents real-
{ze the gulf between these two worlds
which the child has to cross twice
dally, going to school and coming home,
Pasteurizing milk means the sub-
jecting of it to a temperature of
about 145 to 150 degrees for a period
of time (20 to 30 minutes) so as to
destroy common disease organisms,
(diphtheria, scarlet fever, tubercu-
losis, and so forth) and to delay spoil.
age processes, without making any
marked change In the taste. In the
home the milk may be pasteurized in
the bottles which are used for the
feedings or pasteurizers may be
bought, If the bottles are to he used,
fill them with the required amount of
properly prepared milk, in the correct
amount so that each botue contains
one feeding, stopper them with cotton
wadding corks or rubber corks, set in
a wire rack in the pall, fill the pail
with cold water to a line above the
milk In the bottles. This is permitted
to come to the bolling point. Then
remove the pall from the fire, cover
to keep it warm, and after 20 minutes
cool cold water and
hin 24 hours.
ask a
to be
unless
chil-
An
Parents have
school to
gee those
home
the botties In
put on lee, Use wi
if making a indoors
window, It Is
portrait
better to
chalr, placing it at the right
~gbout three feet from the window —
and in a position to the
Highting. Then child
down snd he or she will probahly
sum natural and che
by a
the
"pose
dista
give
have the
en
titude,
the mother who wn
her youngsters playing and splasi
in the water, She cannot swim
self, and she sits in lest they
far, or step over their
depth while she sits there helplessly.
There is
her.
agony
venture loo
If only she could join them and enter
warn them should
instead of
of eautlon fram the hench,
tion to they
overdaring calling
which
hampering to thelr play.
teh her
with the idea of learning
and
rather
from
ahsorbing some of thelr daring
fdas 9s
trying to
she will, before long. be
to = by example
will backed
Yho can bl
BOW and
be with more
for
one
authority,
hail
rebelling
who od
ame a child
aguinst advice given by
not know the subject which
upon
The more a soungster does for him-
Some mothers
when the bed is too
climb
found that
for the two-year-old to
the provision of a little
#8 a step makes the scramble Into
bed something of an alluring accom-
plishment. With some encourage
ment children of oursery school ange
will take pride in pulling the covers
about themselves and in not throw.
ing off the cover after they are asleep.
One mother tells how her little girl
gradually won from the state of being
pinned securely Into her bed clothes
to the point where one pin, which
was used merely fqr psychological
purposes, was enough. In this case
the encouragement of her mother and
the child's pride in her development
were responsible for the progress,
Fashion From Filmland
Shows Black and White
have
high
hox
Black and white Is smartly com.
bined by a prominent motion picture
actress in this mixed tweed suit for
sports wear and she also carries out
the color combination in her black
and white sports hat, gloves and
slippers.
(The Kitchen
Cabinet
(&, 1920, Western Newspaper Union.)
You rising moon that looks for us
again
How oft hereafter, wax
How oft hereafter, risin
us through this same
And for
and wane
look four
garden
one, in van,
~ymar Kha
FAVORITE SANDWICHES
During the late summer and early
fall when the of the wild fills
every heart, we
need pack the
lunch box with
tasty, nourishing
foods, As sand-
wiches are one of
the important food
combinations, a va-
riety from which to
choose ds desirable,
Sausage Sandwiches—For a bunch
of husky lads with good digestions
prepare rolls with small fried sau-
sages placed inside. Or cut the cooked
sausage into very thin slices, add a
dash of mustard, horseradish and a
lettuce leaf and cover with a slice of
plain buttered bread.
Bermuda Onion
Spread thinly sliced bread with but-
ter or mayonnaise, balf the
slices with thinly sliced onion, Tcia-
kie with a bit of salt, cover with {
leaf of lettuce dipped into mayon-
naise and finish wity a buttered slice
on top. Cut into triangles and sprin-
kle lightly with paprika.
Beach Sandwiches Pass
beef through the meat chopper twice,
using a fine knife
ing. Season with salt, celery salt an
tomato
and grated horseradish;
Spread
call
to
Sandwiches.
(over
(
2
‘
cold rare
for the second grind
catsup, worcestershire sauce
moisten with
bread with it-
d pinch of mustard and cover
with the seasoned beef, and top with
a slice bread. Cut
mayonnaise,
into
of buttered
serve with ripe olives
and sour pickles.
Lobster, Eggs and
yt ry fine
P very un
Cucumber Sand.
the meat from 8
3
finely chopped
thiree JH
’ ia
eges and sized
and
add
*n with mayon
medium
d: if fresh
ot 1 ol +
wt peel ;
one
for white bread
and covered
risp leaves. Cut inte
SEASONABLE GOODIES
All
fousls 4
irmuat J
Punch and Judy.
boil cupfuls
of sugar
ut & quart of straw-
berries or one of raspberries through
a sieve and add to the
two-thirds of a cupful of lemon
the juice from a can of
grapefruit, Chill thoroughly and
serve, The grapefruit may be kept
on ice for another meal, to be served
in a fruit salad or cocktail
Peach Dainty.—Line six
glasses with coconut—the freshly
grated is best when obtainable. Place
a halved peach which has been dipped
into lemon juice on the coconut cut-
side up. Cover with any fruit juice
sweetened and fill the cavity with a
spoonful of orange marmalade or any
preserve. Cover with whipped cream
and top with a bit of the marmalade.
ice Box Pudding.—Roll one-half
pound of graham crackers on the
bread board. Cut two cupfuls of dates
into small pleces with wet scissors.
To the dates add one-fourth of a cup
ful of milk, a pinch of salt crackers,
one teaspoonful of vanilla, two cup-
fuls of quartered marshmallows, one-
half cupful of chopped nuts and one
cupful of thick cream whipped. Form
into a cylinder shaped loaf, roll In
graham crackers and wrap in waxed
paper, let stand twenty-four hours.
Serve cut into slices with whipped
cream and a maraschino cherry for
garnishment. This serves twelve,
Fruit Cocokies.—Sift two cupfuls of
flour with two teaspoonfuls of baking
powder, add one-fourth teaspoonful of
salt, one cupful of sliced dates, one.
half cupful of shortening and two-
thirds cupful of sugar well creamed to-
gether, one beaten egg, two to four
tablespoonfuls of milk and one-half
teaspoonful of flavoring. A mixture
of almond, lemon and vanilla is good.
Mix well and drop by spoonfuls on
buttered baking sheets. Bake until a
delicate brows and firm to the touch.
This recipe makes three dozen cookies.
Golden West Cake.—Cream one-third
of a cupful of butter with one cupful
of sugar, add two well beaten egg
yolks, Sift one and three-fourths
cupfuls of flour with two and one-half
teaspoonfuls of baking powder, one
fourth teaspoonfuls of soda and one.
fourth teaspoonful of salt. Add the
dry Ingredients to the creamed mix-
ture alternating with one-half cupful
of grapefruit juice and one-third of a
cupful of the pulp freed from the
membrane. Fold in the stiflly beaten
whites of the eggs and bake in two
layers, Put together with lemon fill.
ing and cover with powdered sugar.
butter, icing flavored with the grated
rind and enough juice of grapefruit
to make of the consistency for
spreading.
Newese Mager
two
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irup L004,
sherbet