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.