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REALITY
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By FANNIE HURST
(© by McClure Newspaper Syndicate.)
{WNU Service)
HAT happened to Norman
Perry in Paris, during the lat-
ter "teens of the Twentieth
century, was just as much,
part of the world upheaval as machine
guns, trench misery, air raid and
barbed wire.
Upon this boy from the placid world
of a suburb of Cincinnati, Ohlo, there
burst, with the variegated fire of a
skyrocket, the spectacle of plunder
and death, Paris and beauty, license
and pain, vice, cowardice and a pan-
orama of bravery that through the
rocket's red glare, made mankind
seem sublime,
Perry, at twenty, from the even
tenor of his father's tool factory in the
pretty suburb outside of Cincinnati,
found himself something of a World-
war hero, two bravery citations to his
credit; a citizen of the world, floun-
dering around the battlefields of
France and Flanders for two years;
and finally, a disabled soldier on ex-
tended leave while wounds of an all
but mortal nature, slowly but surely
closed their ugly mouths,
Then what happened was just nor-
mal part of the abnormal condition.
He met, through a vagary of circum-
stances, the usual little French Col-
ette, whose hair was like a wet mop
of curls, whose drolleries were as ex-
citing as they were alluring, whose
constancy was pathetic and whose
adoration healed him more swiftly
than medication,
He forgot, in the phantasmagoria
of the moment, “the girl back home,”
ensconced himself with Colette In the
traditional thatched attic on the left
bank of the Seine, and for months the
idyllie, irresponsible life of a man and
his maid, flowed In uninterrupted bliss.
Colette! He tried simetimes to
capture the words to describe her. A
dragon-fily skittling over bright wa-
ters. Popcorn dancing in its pan. A
chrysanthemum In a gale. All to no
effect. She not be caught In
the prison of words. She was thistle
down. dancing ahead of the wind. She
eluded on every side. She was delect-
able nonsense, and then strangely,
paradoxically, she was the frugal lit-
tle French girl, conserving your Inter
ests, your funds, your health, your
well-being.
Life in that with geraniums
on the window sills, cookery reeking
from the little improvised stove, laugh-
ter blowing about the corners, happi-
tir turn,
dream caught In an interlude between
two realities:
reality of the su
Life and Paris and flow
and holidays on the Seine and walks
in Fontainebleau and nibbles In patis
back of Col-
would
attie,
18S squatting every was a
¥ 4 h
the reality of war: the
burb of Cincinnati.
er stands
geries and kisses on the
ette’'s darting
one bouquet
crammed wit
awoke
break fasted
knees
galloped through the all too
days with that same sense of holiday
and blessedly with fatigue
of pleasant hours, you slept that you
might awaken to another holiday.
And so the days became
and the months and finally the year
and then, as is the case with all per
fect holidays, there came one day the
awakening to the still cold dawn of
reality.
It came In the form of two trumpet
calls. Armistice! And a cable from
the girl back home. Helen, worn with
the waiting: eager, homesick, re-
jolced, was arriving with her mother
for a Paris wedding and a honeymoon
trip to America.
Well, it fell Into the midst of that
small paradise as bombs like that
wene falling into one after another of
the transient paradises that honey
combed Paris and had been erected
ont of the toll and moll of war. Col-
ette. who knew everything, and in a
way had been prepared for the blow
before it fell, took it when It came
in the same dauntless spirit that char
acterized the countless of her kind.
Norman, feeling smirched, guilty to
ward both Colette and Helen, wretch.
ed, apprehensive, and filled with a
sense of the kind of obligation and
responsibility that has its moorings In
sections like the suburbs outside the
Cincinnatis of America, bowed his
head and his heart and succumbed to
the predicament of caring for two
women and having to choose one,
It was characteristic of Helen, when
she arrived, that she should have tol-
erance and sympathy and understand
ing for the velled confessions that
came In driblets from the lips of her
flance,
Of course Norman had been Indie
creet. The wonder of it Is that he
had survived to tell the tale at all
A man could not be held accountable
for his reactions under the hell of
conditions of war, No more about it.
As If 1t had not happened. Forgive.
Forget,
And so, as the saying goes, they
were married and lived happily.
There was a bungalow adjoining the
parental home in the beautiful suburb
outside of Cincinnati, A lovely set
ting, with a rock garden and a tudor
living room and a gun-metal, stream-
line, family sedan in the two-car ga-
rage.
Helen, beautiful, dutiful and right,
was proper complement to such a
adorable neck were just
hours
You
you
of Irresponsible
h irresponsible joys
with a sense of holiday,
Colette on
with a sense of holiday,
with your
you
Lor
short
wornout
the weeks
home. A housekeeper, a mother, a
considerdble social entity in the com-
munity and a wife who furthered the
steady advancement of the man of her
choice, You could not live in the
quiet orderly and always lovely envi-
ronment created by Helen, and not re-
lnx agalust its sedative lure. If Nor-
man had stopped to question himself,
which, In the ordinary course of
events, the busy American business
man does not, he would have found
within himself contentment, pride and
no small amount of happiness.
Helen, who wore her hair in dark
loose portieres over her ears and
caught low In a knot at the nape of
her ‘neck, was in her very beauty of
repose, the essence of what a man
seeks in his marriage. In a way, al-
though he did not pause to realize it,
Norman, with his slick, short, tan
hair, his square jaw, which In Amer-
fca is the badge for efficiency, his
brisk tailor-made manner and up-and-
coming commerciallsm, was Just as
neatly hewn to his environment,
The Norman Perrys, when their chil-
dren were six and eight and ten, were
the sort of young people who are
“coming on.” Norman, already a rich
man on his own effort, was about to
inherit his father's business, as well
as certain important real estate hold-
ings which would accrue to him
through Helen, whose parents had
died,
It was about then that the Perrys
decided to use their bungalow as ga-
rage and servant's quarters, and erect
on the site of the old parental man-
sion, # new and even more pretenti-
ous home.
It was one of those success stories
of a normal, up-and-coming little fam-
ly working its way up and up In its
prosperous community. Clean, rather
cautious, conservative living; good
strong ideals; well educated children,
goclal advancement, travel, comfort
and praiseworthy old age.
Mrs. Norman Perry, as the
president of the largest woman's club
in Cincinnati, patronized every lmpor-
tant musical enterprise in town, spon-
vice
sored cultural events, community sings
and was a member of the board of one
of the city's largest charity hospitals,
Norman, as president of two cor-
porations, officer In a bank, president
of a noonday club and plilar of a
church and several philanthropic or-
ganizations, marched onward toward
millions.
Like every other radical
tive, however, he has his “blind spots”
as Helen laughingly puts it. It was
his wish, and she abided by it, al
though she counts it as one of her
most wifely sacrifices, that she cut
her lovely flowing hair and wear it In
a mop of curls on her head. It sub-
conserva-
admitted, lend a certain alr of Insouci-
ance to her placidity, With
shorn and worn “mopped.”
gay and almost a little naughty seems
to crop out In Helen,
Norman adores It
Another of his “blind spots” was his
insistence for a den, in the attic part
of the new after an architect
had already planned him a luxurious
one on the floor,
choice, however, was for one of those
slanting-roofed, garret corners, where
he has ger ums growing along the
window sill nd all sorts of fantastic
charcoal drawings on the wall, For
all the world, laughs Helen, like one
of those Paris garrets you read about,
where Trilby lived and loved.
In this garret, sometimes it seems to
Helen, strangely aloof from her, Nor
man spends hours and hours.
‘olette has married, too, The rath-
er pompous owner of a patisserie In
whose shop she flits about all day,
helping him to succeed,
He Is a rough-haired, half blond,
rather charming French fellow, adores
his wife and makes no secret of It
In her way, Colette
homage. She has done much toward
toning him into a more Impressive
type of business man, Especially, In
the years since marriage, has his ap-
pearance changed.
She has worked over his head until,
instead of the tow-headed, rough-
haired fellow she married, he has
been metamorphosed Into a sort of
American-business-man looking per.
son. with slick flat tannish hair that
give him a look of efficiency.
house,
second
Hindu Puzzles Scientists
“I am completely mystified,” de.
clared a famous scientist, after wit.
nesging a remarkable demonstration
of poison swallowing by a Madrasi,
Swami, carried out at Calcutta uni-
versity under strictest scientific su-
pervision. The man drank every
available known kind of deadly poison,
showing a preference for cyanide of
potassium, varied with broken glass
and nails, without ll.effect. The pol-
son was retained In the stomach, and
the man was afterwards X-rayed and
the position of the articles located,
The performance was regarded as a
definite challenge to modern science,
Too Funny for Words
It was a rainy day, and little Cora
Ann, spying her uncle loafing about
the house, decided to ask him some
questions. So she inquired: “Uncle
Ed, why does corn pop?”
“the starch polygons are of such a
hature as to facilitate expansion and
render the grains explosive In char
peter; there Is a fracture of a par
ticle along its two radil, the endo-
sperm swelling very considerably, the
peripheral portions cohering with the
hull, but the fractured quarters turp-
ing back to meet below the embryo
why, my dear, where are you going?’
“Oh, 1 can't wait] must go and
tell little sister,”
YPRINGTIME is here, which briugs
7 thoughts of the sewing campaign
which is and ever will be at this sea-
son of the year,
Here's a timely word of advice, be
sure to stock your and
your sewing cabinet with a goodly as
sortment of crochet hooks and crochet
threads and yarns, for a touch of hand
crochet is the call of the hour. Paris
Is sll enthusiasm on the crochet sub
basket
work
fean woman and her next-door neigh
bor,
It Is taken for granted that you
have been buying up all sorts of pret
materials In anticipation of
who can
resist the lure of the perfectly
lovely
cottons, rayons and linens and wash
: been so tempt.
ingly on display throughout the vari
departments this many a
day.
As usual the “still small volee™ is
bidding mother to consider the needs
little
Which
folks of the
is the
household
first. reason why we
interesting
hand
Z£'y popular, why
daughter's bright
Soein
g that
little
sleeve bands «
They will
hand ero
an alr of dis
such as
give
gown only
These little crochet pleces are so
while listening in on the radio
Since the tub
| material selected for the frock shown
| Is brown with orange and ecru tiny
a
SH R—————
thread for the
fs is also an ecru shade, The
french
¢
mesh. f . or even the modi
ed irish crochet stitch may be em
ployed with equal effect.
thread
10 or 8 steel crochet
mercerized erochet and a No
hook.
The neckband and cuffs are applied
with a trin thread in one of
colors of the design in the fabric. The
stitch Is machine
Use the coarsest of machine needles,
and set } suge for nine or ten
stitches to the | i Mas trim in or
nes the clever yoke
im stitch
trim done on the
ange
shade out
sffect at the wals
young
with »
girdle w th head band to
ne is
Speaking hin trim, any
most delighted
worn hy the seated
ire sketched ahove to the left The
is to stitch bias trim in various
colors outlining a plalded design as
is shown, This is really a uniqne iden
and one
effectively
scarlet, pile Hue, ange and
bias trim mak
when plalded as suggested
Just ns novel and interesting Is the
braided hatband and girdle which the
This
sot is also made of bias trim, such as
ean be bought by the bolt at any no
Fold the bias trim in
half. and fasten the ends with thumb
tacks to a desk blotter or pad, Then
interlace the strips firmly, continuing
with pins to hold in position as you
proceed from one side to the other.
The hat band may be made a little
narrower than the belt, using five In
stead of seven strips.
The little girl who is going step
ping, in the foreground of the picture
has her pretty white blouse smocked
to perfection, in gay colors
(©. 1332. Western Newspaper Unies.)
which enn be worked very
Inde
blak
in imming way
other young miss Is ng.
tion counter,
SPRING ENSEMBLES
The color theme is a predominating
sembles. A dark coat with a light
| bonsts a dark note to match the coat,
| and there is the ensemble. Of course,
it Is not quite as simple as all that,
{ but this color scheme is certainly ex
You will like the new ensembles, for
they certainly are different from al
most anything shown for many a sea
gon, most gttractive and wearable, and
{| refreshingly new, Fine materials and
| furs are used. The frocks often boast
a very complicated cut and yet the
| outcome 1s an apparently simple cos
| tume, without any trace of the opulent
or lavish,
Pale Beige Is Favored
for Spring Ensembles
Beige may be announced with an
thority as one of the smart shades for
spring. [It returns to fashion very pale
i aften an absence of several vears.
Many a woman will give thanks for
this return, as it is both a becoming
and a practical shade,
The bright colors that have been
high style items for more than a
| year are being seriously menaced by
| beige and other neutral colors. It looks
as If these gaudy shades might be
pushed out of the style picture In
another few months. They've had a
pretty good day, and may well bave
run thelr course,
Be that as It may, though, you wil
do well to keep this prophecy well in
mind, beige is in again. It is being
used by the great French dressmakers
for jacket ensembles that are going to
be smart next spring and that may
be worn under the fur coat lnstanter.
CORDUROY PRINT
By CHERIE NICHOLAS
Corduroy goes printed for this smart
pajama ensemble which Is carried out
in the ever good-looking black and
white combination, The strictly tal
fore lines are featured this season
for pajamn costumes Which go cruls
ing. or strolling on the beach, or which
enter Into sports of any description.
Jackets, Jackets!
Jackets are an integral part of the
season's dress, They range from bo
lero to fingertip lengths,
y
MARJORIE DUNCAN
Famous Beauty Expert
Beauty on Every Hand
you and you
shocked by an ugly
hind a trim and stylish glove,
and
the finished look they add to the cos-
tume ensemble 1 would be
abolishing gloves, For time and again
the Incentive to greater beauty.
The very first rule
when handing yourself beauty is that
the bands must match your face in
general tone and texture.
cream your face
much for your hands. When you
cleanse, tone, nourish or bleach the
face and neck take a minute to fol-
your hands, too. It will be time well
spent, 1 promise you
It Is a very stubborn sort of skin
that does not respond
two of kindly eare. Rough, chapped
hands soon take on a satin smooth-
ness if treated to © pourishing cream,
a hand lotion or a soothing balm,
This should be smoothed into the
hands at night just before one re
tires, and alsn several times during
the day after the hands have been
washed.
For red and rough hands the old
formula of glycerin and rose water,
or equal parts of glycerin and spirits
ing and nourishing,
Hands that are chapped should
avold soap and water for a few weeks,
A cleansing cream (s soothing
and cleansing.
And every hand—from the
est to the ugliest should
both
lovell-
receive the
proper protection before (t is sent
chill
hen and
mer the
of the nat-
ural olls making dry and leathery
looking J ishing ore gmoothed
over the hands and a dusting of pow-
der to top the loveliness is sufficient
to carry smooth, white beauty through
a busy day
Fruit jul
the homemaker,
outdoors. In th winter the
blasts will and rot
chap the skin. In the
gaps the
redden
sun's heat skin
stains are
The lowly lemon is
if you
A bit of to-
fruit
have about
80 remove
The hands of youth and beauty
present a beautifully healthy skin
tone, clear, transparent--not a
dead white but the proverbial
peaches and cream loveliness. The
hands of youth and beauty are
hands you love to hold for their
satin smooth loveliness. No wrin-
kles, no discolorations, no ragged
nails ever mar the hands of youth
and beauty. Hand yourself beauty
and remember that beautiful hands
are also on the march in the spring
fashion parade.
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Look Bizarre
N ADDITION to the many women
who have not yet adopted cosmetics,
there is still another group. The
group consists of women who are un-
der the mistaken Impression that using
rouge or powder will make them look
too-obviously “made up.”
Make-up is a subtle art. To use
much.
too-obviously painted lady.
in no way hurt the skin—and by ap-
achieve not only a natural but a beau-
tiful effect as well,
To achieve a natural effect the
first requisite is to select a shade
of rouge that blends perfectly with
your natural coloring.
If you have so little natural coloring
are several ways of
When you are flushed, notice your col
or, or when exercising, the blood will
with skin tonic,
well as the color outline, that Is just
where the “key” or deepest shade is
and notice how It fades away grad.
ually.
The next step Is to blend the rouge
to simulate the natural color outline
apply It to the “key spot” then blend
it so that it fades away. Edges should
never be definitely outlined, but soft.
ened so that they are scarcely percep
tible. A cream rouge is best sulted
to this blending process and achieves
a warmer, more natural, glowing and
healthful effect.
Powder should also match the skin
and should harmonize with eyes and
hair. Choose a good quality powder
and one of good texture. When apply-
ing the powder do not rub It into the
gkin, Pet it on in an upward and outs
ward direction, then gently smooth if
over.
And while on the sublect of make-up
let me urge you to adopt a lip paste
or lipstick, too. Rosy cheeks and pale
lips do not conform with natural order
of things.
A too-obvious make-up should be
avolded. But a natural make-up will
only serve to enhances jour beauty, to
make you look more healthful, more
alive,
GB. 1922, Dell Syndicate.) WNU Barviea
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for FRETFUL,
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— With Castoria’s regulation
When your child tosses and cries
out in his sleep, it means he ig not
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is that polsonous waste matter is not
being carried off as it should be
Bowels need help—mild, gentie help
-but effective. Just the kind Cas-
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children's ailments, It contains no
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Don't let your child's rest—and your
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Women Inventors Increasing
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applicants
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When the last detailed analysis was
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Mexicans Waste Timber
are formul
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for charcoal.
Heada
An NR ~NATURE'S REMEDY
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At the recent mesting of the Amer
fcan Institute of Mining and Metal
lurgical Engineers Nicholas A. Zeig-
ler, of the Westinghouse company,
reported the discovery of a new
cheap alloy, made of iron and alumi-
num, which does not rust when hot.
Red-hot rust, you know, Is what
shortens the lives of furnaces, etc
Has Many Relatives
George Morgan Ferrell, twenty
months-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Roy
I. Ferrell, of Appalachia, Va. has
twelve living grandparents, or rather
eight great-grandparents and four
grandparents, A great-uncle of the
child is fifteen years old and an aunt
is four,
Lacked Snugness
“The trouble with the old-fash-
ioned sofa,” said the flapper, “was
that It was too roomy.”
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Silence rarely needs apology.
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