Yerckel Married
His Cook
8
By FANNIE HURST
(® by MoClure Newspaper Syndicate.)
(WNU Bervice)
HEN Yerckel married his
housekeeper and cook, the
usual hullabaloo took place.
Ought to be ashamed, Won-
der Virgie doesn't turn in her grave,
Has he no shame? At least if she
were young and good-looking, but a
great big rangy dishwasher like Sim-
mons !
Certainly Simmons was no beauty.
Forty, rawboned, with an angular face
and an angular body, she was a sur-
prising successor to the first Mrs.
Yerckel, who had been a mildly pre-
possessing matron, endowed with
qualities which fitted her even over
and above her husband, for the posi-
tion his wealth established.
Yerckel, a bullder who had grown
rich in a booming city, hesitated not
at all over this second alliance. With-
in twenty months after the death of
a first wife, whom he mourned, he
turned gratefully to marriage with the
woman who had came in to take charge
of his household after the disintegra-
tion following the death of his help
mate had set in on the domestic af
fairs.
For ten years previous to this, Sim-
mons had been housekeeper at one of
the larger local hotels, She had effi-
clency, speed, handled her. servants
well, was not above taking a hand at
the cooking and Immediately estab-
shed herself as overlord in the ser
vants’ quarters where discipline had
been thrown to the winds since the
death of Mrs, Yerckel
She was a sociable soul, garrulous,
fond of sitting a long hour over an
afternoon cup of tea and after her
arrival the meni among the
servants came to he something almost
as much of a ritual as the meal pre-
viously served in the long panelled din-
ing room upstairs,
That was part of the success of Sim-
mons with her staff. She made life
below stalrs attractive, granted long
hours of respite from duty In return
for exceptional service during working
hours, and presided at the
dining table as if she were
of a household. Good, homey, salty
conversation flowed when Simmons
presided at her table of eight servants,
including a fine fellow of a chauffeur,
named Shard. It was said among the
domestics, that Yerckel! himself, com.
ing accident ¥ to the
try one even: happened to overhear
one of these congenial and
thereupon fell In love with his house-
keeper,
Whatever the
month following,
and at forty, with
long years of do
her, Adelaide Sir
head of a twenty-room home,
one of the wealthiest men In
munity and hel
tion that automatically
upon her shoulders as the
hushand.
The expected happened.
pertaining to the new soc
mons abhorred, The
ners In the panelled dining
which she had
from the kite!
eame anathema to
were something to dreas
they took place, and for every snub
she received from “ti wounds
bled In the secret places of her heart.
It must be said for Simmons that
she succeeded In keeping practically
all of this from her husband. She
presided, coldly It is true, at his table.
but with sufficient dignity to carry off
the oceasions. She had no small talk,
no artifices, no beauty, but somehow,
there was about this graceless woman,
a stability, a firm, earthy quality of
the homely things of life, that made
her rather magnificent.
Her care of Yerckel was superb. Her
concern for his well-being. her
pation with creature and Godly things,
religions woman : reverent
towards the spirituality of the great
figures of her Bible, and vigorous in
her condemnations of those who. In
her opinion, violated the ideals of right
Hving.
The pompous, ambitious, wordly
men, with pompous, ambitious, world.
ly wives, who came to dine at the
table of Yerckel, left her eold, unani-
mated and In rigid, although secret dis-
approval of their aspirations and ideas.
What was there to discuss with these
women who were self-conscious of
their God; to whom the homely chores
of life were forbidden subjects. and
who talked along the lines of frivoll-
ties and shallow pastimes that were
not only allen, but almost unintel
ligible to Simmons,
Your never dared, with these women,
as in the sanctum of the dining room
where she had presided as housekeep-
er, discuss the goodiy, Godly aspects
of every day living. God. Cookery.
Toll. The women who came to dine
at the table of Yerckel took pride In
the facts that thelr interests had not
to do with such. Country club, styles,
bridge, motor cars, servant problems
were toples that skidded lightly
around, /
Sometimes it seemed to Simmons, pre.
siding there In a world which was re.
mote and allen to her, that her heart
was a pool for the tears she was In.
wardly shedding for the old days.
The old days of service, rather than
these flaccid ones of being served,
Fortunately, to the hour of his death,
Yerckel, whose affection for her was
evening
gervants'
mistress
servants’ pan-
occasions
within a six-
were
CASE,
they married,
y the history of
behind
mons found herself
labor
wife of
the com
ress to a social posi-
descended
wife of her
Everything
ial life Sim-
long solemn din.
room,
viewed
door, be.
Functions
weeks before
ion side
he r.
he set™
ace.
She was a
deep and his admiration great, was to
know little, If anything, of this,
So far as he was concerned, five
years after their marriage he found
himself on his deathbed with a sense
of pain at being obliged to pass from
mortal relationship with this woman
who had served him so well and beau-
tifully as wife.
It was after his death came the
shock concerning his complicated state
of mind where she was concerned. He
bequeathed her his fortune, amount-
ing to close onto a million, with but
one proviso. In the event of her re-
marriage, within a period of five years,
Simmons was to forfeit the fortune
meanwhile to be held in trust for her,
Apparently, it was an expression of
the vagary of a mind that was snagged
with jealousy, the restriction of a man
who had it in him to Impose a dras-
tic influence from his grave.
After all, where a million dollars
wns concerned, it would not con-
ceivably be hard for any woman to
abide by such limitations,
But Simmons did nothing of the
sort. Within two years, she became
the wife of the one-time chauffeur of
the Yerckel's household, over whose
needs she had so often presided In
those days when she ruled the des-
tinles of the servants’ dining room.
The community, the press of the en-
over this
Yerckel widow,
was marrying was also held up as a
paragon of a man, who,
of a few years, would
permit his bride-to-be to sacrifice a
fortune of a million dollars.
Apparently, in the minds of Sim-
mons and her husband Shard,
were never any doubts,
riage dle down; they removed to an-
other city; they set up their house-
hold In the gardener's of a
vast estate upcn which he was the
head chauffeur,
There are two adopted children now,
and Simmons, while not the active
housekeeper, has charge of the market
ing, linens and silver of the
tablishment on the hill
There is something vast, and
quiet about life as it flows on in the
gardener’s cottage.
cotinge
large es-
wise
New Englanders Balked
at Idea of “Servants”
One of the characteristics of New
England speech which have almost dis-
appeared Is the by the
early Inhabitants of the verb “to
serve.” Whe old Argonauts of
racy, the people of the Mayflow-
the Arbella, to New
they were tired of serving, “The
writes, In the Tran
To them, the word “servant”
infinitely
they
might some
suppression
en those
demo
er and
land
came Eng
joston
distasteful. Conscien
tiously as It
i applied to the ne-
groes that were Imported spasmodieal-
iy, or to the Indians whom they
edly—or
bolished it, except
nes be
wick.
(A
hose blood at
along the lowest
If the ciret
revengefully—enslaved,
derable
inst affected
lines of contact.)
of the Puritans sometimes
to necessitate helpers, that Is what
they called them: “help.” Those who
had been servants in England they
called “hired men” or “hired girls
The universal, and It
prevailed
cons element, w
theirs
imstances
appeared
usage became
tury. Old people who still live knew
not the words
All workers for
help.” Not even
meal was
“serve” or “servant.”
“hired
WaRes
the
“served "-<it was
“Mary.” sald the housewife to
hired help, “you may dish the dinner
now." And Mary was a member of
the family. So was Hiram, the hired
man. After the process of sending
here “bound persons” from England
and Ireland ceased, there was not a
“servant” In New England,
This trick of nomenciature was real-
ly a great triumph of democratic prin-
ciples. It proved that the idea of so-
cial equality went “all the way through
the souls of the New England people”
It was only through the accumulation
of wealth and the decay of real de
mocracy, incident to a wide difference
of dally habit, that the “servant” came
back to us. Even then he—and she
had to be imported. But gradually, at
least In certain spots, the capabilit
lunkeyism was redeveloped In
New England race. That
did not flourish freely. There was a
time when the nabobs of the North
shore, or some of them at least, had
Yankee flunkeys. They are scarce
now. Not even now does the New
England race take kindly to “service.”
were
most elaborate
“dished ™
her
St. Fillan's Bells
The crude quadrangular bells of
fron and bronze found In Scotland and
invariably associated with the name
of a saint, date back in some cases
to the Beventh century. They may
have been used as church bells or for
exorcising evil spirits. They vary In
size, some of them standing nearly n
foot high. One of St. Filian's bells
Iny on a tombstone in Stratfillan kirk-
yard for the cure of lunacy and other
disorders until stolen by an English
tourist In 1708. It was returned to
Scotland and in 1860 was deposited In
the Queen Street museum, Edinburgh.
Odd Bird Homes
Communities of social weavers of
South Afriea construct an umbrella.
shaped roof In a tree, beneath which
may be 300 bird homes. An acacia
tree, with a straight, smooth stem,
that predaceous animals eannot climb,
is often selected. Bower birds are
also characterized by a remarkable
habit of constructing bowers or runs,
which have nothing to do with nest.
Ing. but are apparently bullt for sport
and esthetic satisfaction,
!
ERE you have It, dear followers
of fashion, who are ever seeking
the latest. It's just out-—the coat
which takes on a dual personality.
it looks like a dress but in reality Is
¢ bona fide coat,
Who cares If appearances are de
celtful, If a coat which looks like a
dress can “make good” as a spring
wrap which Is just the very thing to
wear over one's gay print silk frock
or which does duty on week-end trips
as an admirable traveling costume.
It's because
have the
are of the
which looks
where a coat!
heavy for a balmy spring day.
It's no secret on
they are
dressma
uniined and
iker touch that they
coveted wearable type
well and appropriate
ike cont would seem too
the part of the
gner that the deliberate alm is to
simulate a dress In every detall, so
far as Is possible, of these new and
mysterfous coats. Which Is to say
that the materia’ In the first place
must have a dressy look and be light
eight. This must be soft
sleeved, unlined, button trimmed most
likely, and it Is almost sure to
on the new wrap-around “lines”
that ma‘ter the smart looking
around dresses which are the rage at
the present moment and the coat
which Is a cont but looks like a dress,
are that much alike In appearancs
they might easily be taken for twins
It Is also part of the plan that
these coats continue their camouflage
in that they maintain flat dresslike
necklines. Many of them are collar
less while others adopt a scarf drape
such as might grace dny of the new
springtime frocks,
The coats pictured (yes, they are
really and truly coats and not coat
desi
cont
take
For
wrap
'
dresses as one might surmise) choose
soft-draped necklines rather than
you
the
to go coliarless. If,
have your heart
however,
set on a collariess
wrap, the beauty about the model
showr to the right in the picture is
that flat fur ecapelet-scarf is de
tachable and It ean be adjusted to sult
the eaprice of its wearer. The skirt
of this dressiike coat buttons all the
way le-front. The diagonal
top Is also a style
of note The cont is made
crepe and the cape
scarf is black gal
As to the
sleeve
its
up the si
giant of its blouse
feature
f thi
! n woolen
yak,
other cont
may be
tured,
sted
ance the
hh serves
"he met
and but an
tons on the bet
shion's enll,
stnble or bracelet sieeve as
above mentioned is an very Interesting
play
{a made to
innovation which has
Many an frock
§
ble duly because
come into
this season
of its sleeves
ving a rubber drawsiring In
ite hemline, can be pushed up or down
short puff type or length
or to the wrist, thus tuning it to more
or less formal or Informal! wear.
Speaking of the coat which aspires
to look like a dress. In some Instances
it neither Is belted or buttoned but
fastens with a soft-tied bow of self
fabric. Just now it is the cost made
of lightweight we preferably a
which Is holding the center of
but milder days com.
the prospect Is that modes of this
be fashioned of handsome
preferably black navy
do do
whic h, ha
to 0 elbow
wien,
crepe
the stage, with
ing t
genre will
coating silks,
or helge,
(©. 1922, Western Newspaper Unlony
SPORTS COSTUMES
REMAIN PRACTICAL
Once agaln the scarf ties up with
most every sports costume has a
The practical note continues to be
held for sports clothes, that is, for
sports things that are to see active
duty. Country clothes are a trifle
more dressy, with more decorative de
to look the
part properly.
We think that the new things for
sports and country year will meet
with your approval gince they show
that careless, casual look that really
is the result of much calculated effort.
Jersey Is the favored material, used
of course, In various fancy weaves,
But whatever the type of sports frock
or suit, the scarf Is omnipresent. lend.
ing its color and softness to the
scheme,
Chic Afternoon Frock
Leader in Popularity
The little afternoon frock lis growing
ap. It Is becoming sophisticated, veil.
Ing its simplicity In a most subtle man.
ner, There's no doubt that the “little”
frock has become an essential part of
our wardrobe,
Many women all but live in the little
frock of black satin or crepe de chine,
as they find It fits Into almost every
scheme and confers a charming, youth
ful look on the wearer.
Overdone clothes are definitely on
the way out, for we have realized that
nothing adds years and heaviness to
the figure as does the overtrimmed
elaborately made frock of rich mate
rial. And so the frock that used to
be the Cinderella of the wardrgbe has
wow become the most popular frock
of all
BUTTONS TO NECK
By CHERIE NICHOLAS
-
Here is a very pleasing version of
an early spring suit dress made in an
intriguing material combining zephyr
and durene yarns in a wafflelike con:
struction that has depth and sheerness
at ‘he same time. The empire waist.
line, which Incidentally is creeping
higher and higher even in daytime
clothes, is subtly treated here. The
flannel cuffs which mateh the vestee
are removable. The seaming of the
gored skirt Is a feature. The vestee
buttons right up to the neck-because
higher necklines are very fashionable,
Of course, one or two buttons may be
left unfastened If the high neckline 1s
not flattering.
.
Be eauty Talks|
By
MARJORIE DUNCAN
Famous Beauty Expert
What to Do About It
clated with nervousness and Im-
paired health generally. See your phy-
siclan to make sure you are in good
{ health, If ‘the condition is merely
temporary and not the result of any
organic difficulty the application of a
skin tonic, witeh hazel, or the follow-
ing solution should help. Have your
druggist make up an antl perspiration
lotion of one ounce tincture of bella:
donna to two ounces of aicohol, Pat
on the hands a few times a day and
allow to dry. The skin tonle or witch
hazel sheuld be used the same way.
A corn Is nature's way of saying
| your shoes are too tight. Your toes
are sensitive, you know, and your shoe
is pressing down too hard on your
toes. By and by nature pits the cal-
lous we recognize as corns on the toes
to pretect the delicate tissues from
The first thing to do
| Is to get a better fitting pair of shoes,
Then use a good corn cure. There are
many on the market, A very deft
| hand can remove the ecellous with a
sharp Instrument the feet
remained In hot water for about
fifteen
nfter hive
very
minutes,
But far better than either the
corn cure, corn plaster or cutting
is a visit to a reputable chiropodist.
It Is very Important to treat your
skin while reducing, as it needs special
care in order to avoid flabbiness or a
drawn, haggard look. Quite time
ago I had a group of experi.
ment with a trea ich proved
highly successful. | skin wus
¢ . Mn
A Dourisi-
thoroughly
ing cream
and
cream a
ted and
gent penetrated
the emollient
thu
a treatm
some
women
tment wh
irst the
nsed, Then
y emol-
this
pat-
The astrin-
htened while
softened,
lient—
quite strong astringent
over face
avol Such
skin smooth,
the muscles tau
While on the subje f reducing,
me warn you not t duce
it ta
gay not} ; of its detrimental effect
on general
let
fast
N10
too
lest 11 from the sl
Freckles cannot be remov
quickly,”
fo ren
for
each ear
der and per
Apply
to dry, rem
paste,
with cool wat
cream.
* » *
Three Sides to Your Face
HERE may
other vital
urishing
be two sides to every
but there are
three sides > your face. No doubt
you are familiar with the full-face re
flection you a y see in your mirror.
mately know the right
If 3 then
each differs rather
issue,
But do you inti
profile—and the |
you know also that
radically from the other
.
eft? u do,
Precious few faces are perfectly
balanced. And no matter, for slight
asymmetry is said to indicate in-
terest and versatility. But, pro-
nounced lack of balance can by
careful! study, adjustment of make-
up and coiffure be minimized.
An elaborate study of the “three
sides of your face” will tell you why
| the triple mirror Is so necessary and
so valuable to every beautyloving
woman, The fullface view, which
! 18 the one we ourselves are most fa-
miliar with, Is usually the kindest of
{ the three. But others see the iwo oth-
| er sides. So let us study ourselves
| and see ourselves as others see us and
| strive to make each of the three ple
| tures a very perfect one
Buying a new hat--and a new, thriil-
ing experience each should be—should
! mean a very careful study in front of
a triple mirror. Your own experience
| ean teach you more than any beau-
tician, for every face is a law unto
| itself, You can suddenly discover that
| a little asymmetrical turn or twist on
| one side and a different treatment on
the other will serve to enhance each
| profile view, without in the least de.
| tracting from the full-face picture.
That is precisely why the triccornered
| hats with the third corner placed
| here, there and everywhere were be
| coming to so many women. Don't
| choose a hat because it gives the wax
| mannequin an intriguing air. How
does it fit your face? And how does
it enhance every one of the three
views?
That aubtle art—the application of
makeup-should also provide food for
study, with the triple mirror as your
constant helpmate. Vanity? Indeed
| not. Precigion and perfection to an
exacting degree Is what you are striv-
ing for. Scrutinize your makeup from
all three views. The profile usually
tells the truth, And often rouge placed
a wee bit differently on one cheek
almost imperceptibly so, of course, a
bit higher or lower or extending out.
ward a little more-will give the face
more balance and more beauty.
This applies, of course, to your colf.
fure, ton, And this is the reason for
the Introduction of so much swirling
and Indulation and the unbalanced
balr arrangements,
€@, 1932, Dell Syndicate, )~WNU Service
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