Not Going Back * A Search for Lost Youth * By FANNIE HURST (@ by McClure Newspaper Syndicate.) (WNU Service) AURICE SPELLMAN had reached the stage where everything he did was im- portant. A certain movement of his circu- lated rumors In Wall Street. International banking watched him, A real estate buy of his in a given district started fluctuations upward in that vicinity, The position of his box at the opera made adjacent ones especially desir- able to thelr owners. A special body of town coupe he came popular because he chose it orig- inally for his own use. When he decided to dispose of his thirty-eight-room Fifth avenue house and build himself a thirty-room house in a section of New York hitherto un- distinguished, it became quite the esoteric thing te live there. Many Fifth avenue mansions were subse. quently deserted for the East River district made suddenly important and desirable by the presence of W. Mau cice Spellman, What actually prompted Spellman to the move, however, was not a desire to create a new social colony. On the contrary, it was something diametrieal- iy opposed to that, There had been growing within Spell- man, as his success mounted and as at forty-six he found himself a power among men, a sense of a need of respite from the growing demands of his position, Success had not come to Spellman without grim battle, For thirty of his forty-six years he had fought for it rung by rung. From the lean days when he lived with his parents and seven brother and sisters in an old water-front tenement, to his days of newspaper selling along lower Broadway, then on up to the still lean but eager days of his cub reportership, when he shared a walk-up, four-room apartment in Greenwich street with three other fellows, and so on and 80 on. Through more years of struog- gie, deprivation, failure, struggle, then failure again and finally the first glim merings of success. The foray into Wall Street on the slender savings out of two years of newspaper work. Success. A plunge with the win pings. More success, A clever side. swipe into copper. Twenty thousand dollars profit over night. Then deluge. From then on, practically everything Spellman touched turned to gold. Feature writers had blazoned his story enough Sunday supple ments to pave the way from his new thirty-room home to the tip of Seattle Slogans for success were Invited from him by the bevy of waiting re porters every time he stepped off a train. His arrival or departure any time or anywhere was a matter of national importance, All this from the man who fifteen years before had been Bill Spellman, a struggling young reporter who shared a rather dingy down-town flat with three other fellows, two of whom slept on cots in the same room with BilL Strangely enough, although in a much less spectacular way, these boys had gone on, too. As if contact with the success-destined personality of Spellman had cast its power over them, Spike Quigley, erstwhile police reporter on the Herald, while Bill had been re write man, was now president of a large motor car corporation. Red Dyke, also ex-rewrite man, had re cently presented his daughter with a check for fifty-thousand dollars on her wedding day. Even Slow Thompson, special writer for the Town Review, had since come nicely into his own as real estate promoter in the land parcel deals, The old “Greenwich Guys” as they had been pleased to call themselves, had all come along In the world, so to speak. Spellman valued those days. Look ing back, they sometimes seemed to him to have been the happlest of his life, They were the days when he had dreamed of writing. Before the moll and the toil had caught him in their clutches and flung him around on the great belt, as it were, of the gigantic wheel called struggle-for-existence. Bill bad been a dreamer back In those days. So had all that particu. lar little nest of fellows. The long, talky evenings over pale red wine and greasy Italian table d'héte dinners In subcellars, dreaming, talking, plan. ning, hoping! And rebelling! Spellman had been a rebel in those days, . Hating Injustice. Crying out against monopolies and against man's inhu- manity to man. Spellman had dreamed of writing the great American Com- edie Humaine, only, as he outlined it to the Greenwich Guys, as they sat talking on and on Into the dream-lit nights, big Comedie Humaine was go- ing to show humanity the grim trag edy, as well, Oh, Spellman had dreams, all right, They lit the dinginess of the poky little over<crammed flat. ‘ They lit the days and nights, They were the dreams of idealism, Of youth with his Lead In the clouds. interests he over And then the deluge. The deluge of the material success that made of life a cyclorama. A success so blinding, 80 amazing, that the world clamored for its recipe, No wonder that under the stress of it, the strain of it, there came the time when Spellman, still in love with suc- cess, mind you, felt, however, the need of a retreat from the maddening crowd. At first his family rebelled, His wife, young, a product of the world he had grown into, held back from that move off the Avenue, His children, fiery, spolled, intelligent, creatures of their kind of environment, shied at first and then capitulated to the nov- elty of the idea, In the end, the move turned out to be one of the most brilliantly diplo- mati¢ things Spellman had ever done, It proved his position in the soclal world which his wife and children craved. Society came flocking over after Spellman to the hitherto obscure section along the East river. A new and old-world looking boulevard be- gan to take shape over there. Brilliantly successful as it was, in the eyes of his family, and the realty dealers who profited by the land boom, so far as Spellman was con- cerned, it was a failure, He had defeated his own purpose. In seeking to escape the maddening crowd, he had only brought it tagging along with him, Travel meant no respite to Spell man. There were the ship reporters, the glare of limelight even In obscure foreign parts, and once when he sought the desert, reporters with cam- eras had found him out as he stalked across the waste place, camel -back. Spellman wanted leisure now. But his Long Island home was a social rendezvous and his Adirondack camp that same kind of center all over again, New Mexico became the fad, no sooner he had built an abode hut out there, and a private office in the forty-sixth story of the office building remained private for about two weeks, Spellman wanted leisure, wanted to write. upon him, The old desire to put Into printed, palpitating word the Spellman matically before his still young eyes. Spellman wanted mental peace. quiet kind of hours that dreams, benign flash out of heaven, AVithin three hours, little old building in quaint old Green- wich street, Twelve hours later, the had secretly passed into the hands of Speliman. One week of secrecy that only power and money nee ASHION'S followers are sure go ing “on parade” this season, all dressed up In red, white and blue with brass buttons and epaulets ‘n’ every. thing that's military, It's quite excit- Ing, this patriotic gesture of the mode. Even the very fabrics which go to make our apparel have been designed to commemorate the George Washing ton bicentennial celebration, In that the motifs of the newest silk prints center about the famous cherry tree In. cident, while stars and stripes and tri But that Is another story which has to do with spring weaves. What we talk about Is the Intest, smartest coats which have such a mil itary bearing they quite overawe one, 30 broad shouldered and all a glitter with nickel or brass buttons and the like, Perhaps the most outstanding re action to this martial spirit which 1s portance of blues In the color range, very keen blues some of them, for the Most military In matter Is the cont shown to the right In the it's color combination Is almost an extra replica of the dingy old flat of days gone by. He had even managed to have re produced the mangy old carpet sofa upon which he had slept those eager nights, away back. There was the Ink spot on the wall 3ill one might the subject of Neitsche’s philosophy. The first night that Spellman spent in his new retreat promised to be one of the greatest peace he had known In years. A long quiet evening before the tunnel-shaped little old grate In the dingy flat. Books. Memories, Dreams. Ideals, But, of course, it was hard to con centrate. By eleven o'clock, a hun- dred detalls were crowding into Spell. man's mind, making It difficult for him to use his well-earned leisure There was not telephone, There had been none in the old days. One had to go to the corner drug store. That made It difficult. In the last year, Spellman had developed a slight heart leakage. Unimportant, but he required a certain amount of restraint to his activities, iy eleven, Spellman, ac customed to chilled mineral his bedside, was thirsty. only the hydrant, leaky refrigerator. There had never been any in the old days, unless one huge shining nickel buttons contrib uting their share of pomp and glory You should see the con! pictured to the left In lis original color, for it Is bright red—red corduroy, If you please, for corduroy hae come back and there is no mistake about It. This model Is for a young girl. In a more conservative color, say the new beige, it would be wearable for any age. De signers are using cordurory for most everything, for the swagger little bell hop jackets for pajama costumes, for sports dresses and suits with lols of white cordurory In prospect for sum. mer wear. As to the coat mentioned. the diagonal lines of brass butions dramatize its broad shoulders, while its trig, narrow walstline emphasizes the military mode that Is scheduled to lead In the Easter style program. Note, JoLi Frock too, its collariess peckline which is many coals are sans collars go as to make way fur neckpleces planned for us A new treatment general trend use of considerable military brald, ap plied In rows, or perhnps for epaulet shoulder effects ns well as many other attractive expressions, So, If you like brald trimmings, the hour has come to Indulge your fancy. Suits as well fis conts show this ornamentation. It Is very evident that the militars spirit has pervaded every realm of fashion, from knitted wear to furs The former adopts, for Instance, the tri-color schemes which are 80 exceed ingly popular, with double-breasted treatments employing flashing butions “Then there's the pew flaunting their reds, via all sorts of whimsical stripes, siars and other design. The little short jackets veloped of gray kidskin accented with nickel buttons are a possession to be coveled, seeing that they blend wi'h current fashions of miiltary aspect. And have you seen the detachable military capes which are of fur or of cloth rnd which boast of butions In rows according to the latest of fashion. Dresses are military minded also In that many of them are fashioned of blue sheer woolen with trimmings of red and white print silk (2. 1922. Western News-aper Union ) which Inspired by meni scarfs whites and blues sf #4 0 spring Je DOUBLE DUTY FROCK FINDS WIDE FAVOR The time seems to be over, for the present at any rate, when we bad a different costume for each occasion Now, our frocks have to do double duty and be Just as good looking at ten as at a smart restaurant or night club, Fo! this reason we now dress In lay: ers, slipping on over a decollete gown a bloused effect, Jacket or bolero to make It perfectly presentable when the saloon and brought worth. Of course there was no Grody's saloon any more, When finally Spellman turned in, the magic to the old couch was all gone. The old couch hurt! It shot into his ribs with a cruelty that kept him wide awake and concentrating upon his discomfort rather than any of the old dreams he had used to en. Joy, with his eyes staring wide open into the comfortable blackness, The blackness annoyed him now. He had the sensation that vermin might be crawling around and about him. The stiff blanket irked. The air from the shaft was foul At eight o'clock the next morning, Spellman, who had fallen off into a brief hour's sleep, awoke stiff and un. refreshed. A blurred mirror gave back his lined and weary image, The little old room of his memories was a dirty smear, The old Bill was gone, was In his place, Emerging from the rickety little building that morning, eager for a taxi and a trip uptown to his warm and mellow bath, he found a battalion of reporters and photographers lying in wait for him who leaped into action at sight of him, “Mr. Spellman, have you anything to say-—eclick--click—¢lick--on the subject of" “Yes, fellows, 1 have,” sald Mr. Speliman smiling, as he hailed his taxl, “He who would seek for his lost youth, must find it in his heart, There is no going back” Spellman blue of night. This Is an extremely practical and workable fashion and no matter how much the great houses may charge for such a model, the pur chaser feels virtuously happy that she is effecting an Important economy by buying a two-In-one frock. Ensembles of Shoes and Bag Add Chic to Suit It seems to be that although the shoes and the handbag are of deces sity so far apart from each other, they are really soul mates. But at last this fact Is receiving proper recognition, for nearly every smart shop here now shows ensembles of shoe and bag and rare it Is nowndays to find a shop with: out several examples of this smart combination, For smart it Is, guaranteed to dress the simplest spring coat or suit and give It new charm and chic. More and more, we are corelating our neces tories and doing away with slipshod methods of selecting things that are totally unreinted and have no reason for being worn together, Lacquered Hair New for Evening Coiffures Lacquered halr Is a new note In coif- fures for feminine heada The halr Is treated with a lacquer which does not change its color, but which makes each halr nlmost twice Its normal size It is then arranged in ringlets and swirls and allowed to dry. The lac quer, which Is used only In the eve ning, may be easily washed off nest morning. CHIC LACY MESH By CIERIE NICHOLAS afternoon dress Is not lace. It's a young and extremely popular first cousin to lace. The technical pame Is durene cotton lacy mesh. This knit weave of softly lustrous durene is of diagonal construction. The designer of the frock has furthered the diag onal feeling throukh clever handling of the stripes. A dull suede belt con- trakts the subtle luster of the ma. terial. The scar! is tied to give a cowl neckline which to slender faces is amazingly becoming, The New Cottons In materiul, cotton bus been raised from humble rank to high favor. Printed cottons are shown for dresses, blouses and cont linings. Cotton day dresses are found In open weaves, Pique, wool and some boucle are seen In daytime costumes. Beau ty Talks By MARJORIE DUNCAN Famous Beauty Expert Conflicting Beauty Theories A? LEAST once in every day of a beauty editor's life comes the ery: “What's a body to do—So and So says do and So and So says don't— and how can one avoid being bewll dered by so many conflicting beauty theories 7” The answer invariably ls: Study yourself, your own needs, accept the theory that appeals to your best judg- ment as being good, sound, sense, Give that theory a chance, be persistent, have faith and your efforts should brings results, jeauty experiments should be thorough, not haphazard, fly- by-night affairs. No one hears more conflicting beauty beauty students them- In quest of the reason for be fundamental most every rule on which gree, diet, sufficient fresh alr brushing and similar bezuty detalls, But exponent number two, equal- ly as young looking and equally as beautiful, points with pride to the fact that she observes nary a beauty rule. No sir. Not she. But—are beauty students bewil- dered? Just as emphatically—no sir. For they know that there must be a catch some place. "hen there's the owner of a beautiful figure who never But ev- ery day she walks two miles, and ev- ery evening she swims in the pool in her apartment hotel. As though these arent the two best all-around exer- cises. Furthermore, she keeps her exercises, fect posture, A screen star | know, says: “Diet— bah—]1 eat anything 1 like,” but evi dently from what [I've seen of the lunches I've had with her, she has no desire for rich, fatty foods The moral of stories, Is: don’t be bewildered and don't attempt to imitate, If your favorite actress thrives on a mixture of cosmetics, that is no Indication that your skill will stand the same kind of treatment Or, If your latest and alert o nonly three hours of sleep that Is no clue for you to start stay- ing up nights. Know yourself, know your system, your resources, just what these crush seems alive You can stand and what you can't, and work only for fo you. what will be becoming Importance of Health V¥/ OMEX are tired of Pollyanna talks and skeptical of the ser mons “beauty is as beauty does” and “to be beautiful you must be In love.” Vibrant beauty depends on the line of Important contributors Is health. For without health You cannot be beautiful if you are not healthy. Have you ever seen a man or woman suffering from ill health who did not wear the “give aways” dull eyes and a heavy skin? Sooner or !»‘== “the skin will show.” For the signs of ill health are not confined to inner aches and pains. damage in many ways, become chronic and It Is sure to dim of Its spryness. more credit for “premature age” all the calendars records man ever Invented to mark time. Two of fatigues busiest beauty. Be It but moment it Is bad enough, Bos SFT When blaze, when there's no joy In living, Akin to boredom Is a general, dis. People who have hobbies to con. the fates I think that Is why they say people In love are lovely, The actual cultivation of external beanty-silky skin and glossy hair is _simple—particularly in this day and nage when science is contributing so lavishly. But that Inner peace and contentment, the beauty within that seems to shine right through the out. er covering Is often difficult to hold on to. But with courage—with Inter est and enthusinsm-—with hone—bean- tiful and optimistic thoughts—ia a word a healthy mind and a healthy hody one has a high bid for “that lovely look.” (®. 1932, Bell Syndieate.) ~WNU Service, What Makes It Hard Even when the office secks the man it has trouble finding him because of 0 many bug-eyed candidates Jumping in the way and shouting, “I'm it." Ohlo State Journal, 44), COMFOR for COLICKY BABIES «++ THROUGH CASTORIA'S GENTLE REGULATION The best way to prevent colle, doctors say, Is to avold gas In stom- ach and bowels by keeping the entire intestinal tract open, free from waste, But remember this: a tiny baby's tender little organs cannot stand harsh treatment, They must be gently urged. This Is just the time Castoria can help most, Castoria, you know, i8 made specially for ba. bles and children. It is a pure vege table preparation, perfectly harmless, It contains no harsh drugs, no nar- cotics. For years it has helped moth. ers through trying times with colicky bables and children suffering with digestive upsets, colds and fever. Keep genuine Castoria on hand, with the name: CASTORIA CHILDREN CRY FOR IY Hooked Bluejay A bluelay ing tackle sard wis captured with fish. a, Fia F. A. Han- practicing casting with a hookless line in hi backyard when a jay ju the weighted end and tangled jtself up. There was much commotion before Hansard able to release the bird at Ocal Wis 8 Own i mped at was Good Night, Dear Sag used to call him “darling”... Now he's so tired out that he never takes her anywhere. So weary, that she no longer loves him. Yet it is so easy to hold fast to youth, to bring back the bloom of young vigor and health. Millions of average people have done it with Fellows’ Syrup, the fine old tonic which doctors recommend. Youcan start feeling better and younger, tomorrow. Just get a bottle of genuine Fellows’ Syrup from vour druggist, today. FELLOWS _SYRUP_ Geography Simplified “What do they mean when they say Washington, D. C.7" asked the teacher. “Washington, up a little chap. CHEST COLDS Yield Quickly When You Use B. & M. THE PENETRATING GEAMICIDE Your Druggist Can Supply It Large size $1.25 F. E. ROLLINS CO. 53 BEVERLY ST., BOSTON, MASS. If you look for pineapples on a pine tree your search will be fruit less, de capital” piped The shoe dealer always sells his goods at bottom prices, STOP RHEUMATIC almost instantly relieves a ot a See st i and neuritis, nn Moura.
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