The Silver Kiss
8
By Fannie Hurst
(© by MoClure Newspaper Syndicate.)
(WNU Service)
HEN Myron Gllmore went
away to the World war, and
two-thirds of the town, wet-
eyed, crammed the small sta-
tion to see the boys off, he took a girl
he had called Sweet Annie Laurie for
the greater part of his life Into his
arms, and there in the melee of un-
leashed emotions, kissed her roundly
and soundly on her beautiful lips,
“Let this last you, Dear Heart,
I return,” he said.
“You know I will,
ing it, Myron.”
And so she would have,
what happened.
War boomed on: the weeks stretched
into months and the months into years
and in a small Middle Western town a
girl named Laure Moore kept tryst
and waited. It was a fearful kind of
walting ;the kind that caused one to pick
up every morning's paper with baited
breath, and the sight of a messenger
boy running up a flight of front steps
was sufficlent to strike terror into the
heart. Strained waiting months of
anxiety, mingled with of terror,
mitigated by prayer.
And then one day, near Verdun, un-
der an exploding shell, that as it fell
lighted the countryside in a wide white
grin, Myron Gilmore, crouching for at-
tack, felt the lower half of his face
seen to move: take wings: take flight,
Almost just that had happened. One
of those devastating facial accidents
that brought about the wonders of a
new science called plastic surgery had
befallen Myron, tearing away part of
the lower jaw and mutilating, almost
beyond recognition, the personable
face of the young man who had bid-
den Laura Moore good-by.
Then the
after month in one hospital
other, where from time to time the
various experimental treatments were
tried out. The wound had healed fair-
ly well, but the great problem lay In
restoration. and silver had
been tried for filling out
the shot away jaw
because of certain lig
the would not hold
slowly but surely the
structure of Myron's
begin to collapse, revealing the upper
Ine of his
It made him r le. So
thing like a sk wad, if you beheld
him from th
dragged on, th
over this re
until
without my say-
except for
hope:
Month
after an-
same old story.
and
improvised
subst
ance
ower jaw would
ide teeth
ather horrible
as the months
ped In Myron,
urring tragedy
ere develo
of the ex-
face,
posed side of his a sensitiveness
that was torture and torment. Day
face to
mates what
of his
since
ing to the eage
came from Lan
Then one
Two weeks
FOSS =eas 0
letter to Lau
ings that Myron had died of a septic
Infection of the jaw.
That somehow m
easier for Myron to
manage to go through
paraffin
long as you did
ment of lovely
figure of t YOUr own
had pressed in promise of bright
to come,
It was at a hospital in Paris they
finally succeeded in perfecting a lower
Jaw or silver and paraffin that held
firmly and except to the closely ob
serving, the face of Myron, with the
exception of a rigidity which suggested
partial paralysis, was any too
noticeably searred. Of course it was
obvious that here was a face some
how not of normal cast, but it was not
a countenance to cause ore to recoil,
In other words, but for the inevit-
able handicap of such a defect, My-
ron’s disability, except in his own con-
sclousness, was not the calamity it had
threatened to be. Pulling himself to-
gether and taking up the routine of
life, there remained within him this
one form of sensitiveness that was lit.
tle short of mania,
He believed himself a horror In the
eyes of man. Which he was not. He
molded his life accordingly, finding
himself a position in an English bank
in the city of Paris and practically
ving the life of a recluse,
It was too bad all the way around,
not only because the obsession that his
sliver lips would have been so ter.
ribly repellent to Laura, but because
the further reduced hig life to the
narrow lusterless plane of an eccen-
tric. There where no mirrors in My-
ron's rooms; he allowed himself no
social life; women were omitted from
his scheme,
At forty, skilled in a colloquial
knowledge of the French language, an
honor student at the Sorbonne and a
graduate In French law, he had man:
aged to fill the wide empty niches In
his life by qualifying himself for a
professional career,
It was remarkable in its way, and
created ne small amount of comment.
The idea of this American who called
himself Myron Stewart, qualifying so
brilliantly for the French bar, eanght
popular fancy. Americans, flocking,
brought him wide clientele and then
his success began,
Meanwhile Laura, whose heart was
a grave for him, had done the not un.
usual thing. Ske had married the
mext-best, a bosom friend of Myron's,
hearing the tid.
ade things simpler:
You could
life with na
fust so
into the tor-
bear
jaw. If need to be.
not drag
vour little he iL. the
he girl whose lips
days
not
provided her with worldly goods and
died in a fashion that had been a
shock to the entire community, One
of those untimely deaths by motor
car accident, of one of the thriving
and successful business men of the
town. Out of a clear sky, a devastat-
ing bolt from the blue, and Laura at
forty, childless, a widow,
Inevitably, props thus knocked
from under, she found herself follow-
ing the nomadic trail of the widow.
Her first trip abroad, in the company
of a personally conducted group of
five, landed her In Paris in April, the
perfect month of the Paris year,
There were bitter memories in her
heart for this city which she had
never seen; bitter memories all crowd-
ed around with the pain of her new
grief,
It was while she was standing alone
one day before the perpetual flame on
the grave of the Unknown Soldler
at the head of the Champs Elysees,
that glancing up, she found her eyes
riveted to the gaze of one who had
evidently risen from the casket in her
heart,
He had not, though, because as she
gazed, stealthily he began to move
away and as one possessed, she began
to push through the traffic of the
Etoile after him.
“Who are you?"
“I am no one you know,”
“You are Myron"
“You are mad."
“You are Myron”
“What if [ am?®"
“How dare you talk like that! What
if you are! If you are, yon my
life come back, when I thought life
dead.”
“How did you
“Why not?"
“My face”
“Myron—Myron, it 1s dark
just to prove to me I am not
Ing—and wake
Myron—"
Coldly he lald against hers, lips that
were rigid with silver,
« “Now you
“Surer than heaven.
are
know me?”
Here
dream-
may up—kiss me,
are sure?”
Kiss me again.”
Men of High Ability
Buffeted by Fortune
When the papers announced
day that a man named
Melanowsk! was living in the hon
the Little Sisters of the
Middle West
pecially Interesting
on and
ground.
For Mel:
men
the
Leo
ie of
Poor In a
it didn't sound es-
~unless read
man’s back-
other
city,
you
arned abou
kl was one of the big
in the early
INOWS
days of the automo
bile Indu ago he
WAS consi
lecades
tomotive ¢
a mi
that way
At one
for a
¢*ionn
velopn
itter of
SO
once
general,
to get the result
Melanowski is
the only
the early giants of
trade to wind up In pove
David Buick died a
in Detrbit a
Hupp, it not in poverty, was not
among the mighty and the rich when
he dled. And the automobile business
is not thee only business that has tales
like that. Nearly every industry can
duplicate them,
Just why things like that should
happen is not at all clear. No indus
try ever had a surplus of brains, “he
old saying, “There's always room at
the top,” is perfectly true. A man
ol outstanding ability Is always In
demand.
And yet—every now and then such
a man of that kind gets absolutely no-
where, It Is as If there were some
hidden and inexplicable rule by which
business must sacrifice, now and then,
a keen brain to Invisible and
maleficlent power. Melanowski, Buick
—you could make a long and dismal
ligt. It testifies to one of the most
distressing and wasteful ailments of
modern business, — Rocky Mountain
News, Denver.
penniless
few years ago. R. C.
some
Inspiration in Alabam’
In Birmingham, Ala. Epheus and
Mary Thomas named their daughter
Laxative, Other names given to ne-
gro children, as revealed by the bu.
reau of vital statistics: Rosy and
Posy (twins) Arcola, Miserable,
Roach, Zenobla, Poindexter, Diplom},
Nebuchadnezzar, Mumps, Cleopatra,
Love Lycurgus, Measles, Cleop, Island,
Moraphine, Shylock, Phemia Initia,
Shinola, Truthle, Listerine, Providen-
tia, Etoy, Zeller, Delphine -Richlene,
Arcadia, Zebedee, Charity, Orestee-
Lennion, Ishmann-Juliug, Friendly
James, Pearlean, Amorous, Dimples,
Vielin, Mystic Kate, Ivory White, Ivory
Shivers.—Time Magazine,
Denotes Preciousness
The original application of the
phrase “apple of the eye” is not clear,
some supposing it to be a perversion
of “pupil of the eye,” and others ad:
hering to the theory that It originated
in the notion that the pupil of the
eyes Is a round solid ball like an ap-
ple. At any rate “the apple of the
eye” is the symbol of that which is
cherished and most precious. The ex-
pression refers to anything extremely
dear, greatly beloved or highly valued.
It }¢ very old and oceturs a number of
times In the King James version of the
Bible. ~Pathfinder Magazine,
V JITH enchantment of springtime
all about her, the bride of today
must needs look her prettiest in or
der to tune In with the picture. In
answering this challenge for bridal
array of glamorous beauty, fashion
turns to lovely lace as the happlest
solution. Of course brides are
loath to depart from traditional satin,
and so the ters Into a com-
promise this
fifty fifty proposit
for the smartest
of all
gsOme
mode es
ion of lace n
Ince If you really prefer,
for
their wit
Iacer
Fortunately
who look
American
replicas of
tures
brides and
isomest in
nakers are
antique
ace,
producing
designs and tex.
are that authentic In
mesh as to defy
cost prohibit
which
motif and
nor is the
As to the pictur
bride wore” or is we
gown of off-white
garnitured with durene
heirloom patiern—a
be priceless if It
through-thé- family” nas it lk
The
closely
experts,
satis
were
ince makes a bolero
fitted with an
raistiine which is the
houette—~infinitely
figures. There's a quaint peplum
lace, too, and you will please to note
the pointed panels of matching
which are so decorative on the skirt
The long, formal satin train also has
a sumptuous lace border,
ince
The court vell Is arranged from the
confines of a charming little pearl
and lace Juliet cap that forms an al
luring aura about the bride's perfect
ly coiffed head, seiting off to perfec
SNAPPY CLOTHING
FOR MOTOR TRAVEL
All the Ingenuity of the dressmak
er's art has been turned loose this sea
son on clothing for motor travel,
An all-weather, all-time, allservice
traveling costume consists of a long
tweed coat, a matching skirt, a bar
monizing sweater and a silk blouse as
well ns a silk dress to match the lining
of the coat.
With this combination one may be
warmly dressed for traveling in cool
and Imaculately and freshly
One such combination worked out by
black and beige mixed tweed (the red
predominating) with a big roll collar,
tones, a red silk blouse and a simple,
tailored red silk dress
A woman may motor hundreds of
miles In such a suit, wearing the skirt
and sweater, changing into the dress
for dinner, wearing the same chie lit
tle red felt hat and tweed coat, and
feel delightfully fresh for the evening
Smart Style Calls for
Tiny Bib for Grownups
One of the smartest fashions re
cently brought ou! is the little bib of
white, to add that touch of freshness
that docs such wonders with a dark
frock. ‘They are made precisely like
a child's bib, buttoning at the back
of the neck, and come in fabrics which
range from sturdy plque and linen to
hand-embroldered batiste, organdie
and crepe de chine. Some have col
ored borders hand fagoted ; others are
edged with ‘ace. They are simple
things to make, and two or three
would freshen up a wardrobe a bit
the worse for winter wear.
i Vo
tion her beautiful face.
callin lies,
She carries
for they are extremely
popular for bridal bouquets. Her
slippers are satin sandals,
For those whose fancy turns to dl-
apha effects rather than stately
satin an outsy French creator
modes advo: the alliance of
with dainty chiffon. Whe the
ice Is a sort, re ef.
lovely and youth-
nous
1Ce
r cobwebby
ir
ect is Indescribably
nee of cot-
is arraying
beg iting or
embroidered
most
then
net of ex.
move
with
intest
frocks
little
ides, for white with 1
color in the
for the weddin
Another |
portant
is « pres
afcensns
2 ort
wider-s
Sed
either
silhouettes which ea
y fair
ape
i shoulde
The gown
honor as
worn by the matron
shown in the pil
new “lines,” the
crisp dered
fry
iure
fea-
tures these wee cape
iet of organdie
standing out wideshouldered In sc
ance with the latest mood of the
mode. The durene macrame which
fashions this charming frock is In an
entrancing shade of turquoise
The embroidery forms a
which glistens like
on iis transparent
ground. Her bouquet
in delicate pink
(©. 1932, Western Newspaper Unlon.)
embrol
cord
pattern
delicate frosting
organdie
is sweet peas
hack.
WHITE BEACHWEAR
(HERIE NICHOLAS
TP
This pajama ensemble of diagonal
durene mesh answers the call of the
mode for all-white beach wear. The
shops are also showing it in pastel
or brighter shades according to the
demands of one's bent and com
plexion. However, white Is a great
favorite this season and most women
find It very fiattering and youthful
looking. The beauty about the new
and exceedingly popular cotton mesh
is that not only Is It good to look
upon but it lnunders so easily and so
perfectly. Particular attention is
called to the styling of this model
which features the fitted double.
breasted blouse, flaring trousers, an
ston Jacket together with a generous
use of buttons, The most famous de
signers are using a great many but
tons this vear.
By
MARJORIE DUNCAN
Famous Beauty Expert
Perfume Secrets
made In the perfuming art is the
It is very Important that toilet articles,
for instance, creams, lotions and pow.
ders have only the faintest, most dell.
cate perfume. So that when one's fa-
skin or lingerie there will not be a
too obvious blend of several
Nothing is more revolting than a mix
ture of rose, lilae, and
what-else-have-you,
The smart woman's
parcissum
dressing
precious perfumes, But If she is truly
smart, she uses but one odor at a time,
Her perfumes may vary ‘lu Intensity
for different times of day—starting
with a very faint, delicate scent in
the morning, a little heavier for after
noon tea, and quite exotic for dinner
and dance. Or she may wear a musk
perfume with her sports clothes and
furs, a floral odor with chiffons,
a bouquet blend with semi tallored, in-
formal costumes, PBut—(we are still
speaking of the smart woman) —
never superimposes one perfuine on an-
other,
The delightful art of perfuming need
not be limited to the last touch of the
tollette. An old standby ever re
liable Is the sachet bag. And it can
be put to such delightfu
use, A very thin slik sachet bag
stitched to the lining ur favorite
hat (or all your hats, for that matter)
will carry its subtle scent only
hair.
pastel
1
she
and
ily diversified
of yo
not
the
A scented sheet of
under your
ter, In your bureau dra
belongings will
perfume,
If a particular perfume wing a very
favorable de g action with
you—if it strikes a harmonious chord
that makes yon exc siastic-
ally “at last, ha sur-
round yoursel with it — because (it
very likely is your perfume if
find ay in It, others will pl
urably it with you. Line your
linen drawers with sachet hags scent:
ed with it,
the ¥
your
Wars remembe
and perfume
were. and
150
your
breathe your favorite
and
you
¢R%
associate
ubtly shed
on
ty ev}
igi
wind—now carressing
never persistent
ways faint
tinctive.
neve
Remember these perfume secrets
and remember the disastrous
“don't.” Never allow a confusion
of various odors. Your bath salts,
soaps, powders and personal ef.
fects should have zs uniform per-
fume as possible.
* » »
Correct Drooping Muscles
WHEN N the
No
whose
» face falls, how can
thought is to
worry.
console
For worry
hairs, and then th
cause for alarm,
There's nothing
will only add
ere will be more
very about a
chin that carries its double with it.
and none of us seem to have patience
who allow thei
their
lovely
women jaw line
rn to
If every woman would start at
twenty or twenty-five to give her-
self the necessary préventive care,
it would all be so much simpler.
However, do not think that
with an insurmountable
Perseverance and persistence
will do much fo lift and firm the pesky
The first steps In your treat-
ment are-~cleansing and exercising the
steps which woman
no matter what the type
or condition of her skin or contour,
step Is manipulating-—patting,
you are
every
ing cream. Choose one compounded of
pure ingredients and rich in delicate
oils. Press and lift the fingers in an
upward and outward metiza. Remem.
ber—always upward and outward on
the face. Work around on the neck.
If your skin is thin, dry, or sensi
tive, you will want to leave the nour
ishing cream on face and neck, pat
ting directly over it with an astrin-
gent. This Is a splendid combination
as the astringent will seep down into
the tissues and tighten while the cream
offsets any drying effect. Follow this
treatment every night. Twice a week,
or three times, treat yourself to a tie
up. Take a pad of cotton quite heavy,
moisten in the astringent, pat over the
cream as described above. Then open
the pad, place under the chin, quite
firmly and tle overhead, securely with
a strip of gauze or linen. Allow to
remain for ten or fifteen minutes. You
should feel it firming and tensing and
tightening the muscles,
The treatment is the same for the
olly skin gccompanied by sagging. the
only variation being the omission of
more nourishing cream after the astrin.
gent-also the removal of the nourish
ing cream before the astringent.
(9. 1932, Dell Syndicate. yee WNU Service,
Extreme in Patience
Jainism, a religion of India, so
strongly stresses the doctrine of none
injury to all living things that a de
vout follower of the sect will not kill
or even disturk the Insects which he
finds feeding on his body.
Mercolized Wax
Keeps Skin Young
ayn aa directed. Fine particles of
a a nl oll af sate a such se Vimplas.
tan sod ad frosiles dissppant Bkin is then
vety.
A
. Wrtaviden use one ounee Powdered
od ko ous-half pint witeh hasal. A drug stares
CROCHET THREAD
For Bedspreads
8 or 4 ply 2 1b, cone 31 postpaid.
TRIO MANUFACTURING CO.
Forsyth, Georgia,
Biggest Value Ever Offered. Large 8 on
bottle finest vanilla 26c seller, 100% prof.
it Atlant! e, 2203 Ma.
¥u LLY EQUIFVED VIL LAGE FARM. Pr
acres, painted § room house, iarg® Harn, 15
acres tillage, plenty of wood, thmber, fruit,
good horse, cow, all farm machinery, tools,
vehicles, $2,200, Terms, Hubbard & Bige-
w, KE ndin, or Manchester, N. H., R. 1.
Log Finally Vanishes
A spruce log, 28 feet long and 14
feet in diameter, which was the butt-
cut of a tree that took 11 flat cars to
carry, finally went down to the bay
with a tide after being in the Colum-
bla Box and Lumber company’s mill
pond at South Bend, Wash, for 20
years. The log could not be hauled
into the head rig without tearing out
part of the mill building. It finally
was pushed into the current—a much
scarred derelict,
Crest, Baltimore,
Transparent Aluminum
Transparent aluminum has been
produced by a German chemist by
substitution of substances in prepar-
ing an alloy which retains all the
properties of the original metal, yet
permits the passing of light, So far,
the emerging light has a yellowish
tinge, but the chemist is working to
eliminate this color and make a
glass-clear product
Do You Get
BILIOUS 9
ATTACKS |
Constipation will upset
your entire system ond bring on dyspep~
sia, nervousness and lock of pep, Com.
mon as it is, mony people neglect this
trouble ond lead themselves into serious
cilments, Your doctor will tell you the
importance of keeping bowels open.
The eosy, sofe remedy is Dr. Morse's
indion Root Pills, mode of pure herbs
ond roots. They not only clecnse but
cise regulcte. Af oll druggists.
INDIAN RET PILLS.
Mild & Gentle Laxative
Altar to St,
Patrick
On a vw the spot
where St. Patrick lande rom Rome
L500 years ago, It d is to erect a
great open-air altar. The altar will
£50,000. The money ¢ being
cost
raised
WAS Ture
ing the
centenary
Peterman's Ant Food is sure death
to ants. Sprinkie it about the floor,
window sills, shelves, etc. Effective
24 hours a day. Safe. Cheap. Guar.
anteed. More than 1,000,000 cans
sold last year. At your druggists.
Inducements
* cried Martha, rush.
ing into the house, “Keith's going to
have a tooth pulled, and his father
is going to get him something real
nice,
“Mamma,
pulled, too?
something
can't 1 have my tooth
Then you can get me
nice.”
smooth
and white, "yout hair silky
snd glistening, your
refreshed,
Use
Glenn's
Sulphur Soap
Contuima 33%; 7 Pure Solphar. Mt druggints
Rohland's Styptic Cotton, 28¢
Lollypops and Courage
A chemist has discovered that a
slight variation in the glucose con-
tent of the blood makes all the differ
ence between cowardice and courage.
Instead of whistiing In the dark, it
would be more scientific to eat a
lollypop.
Rearranging the furniture In the
living room is a poor substitute for
f vacation to a woman,
Blessed are the joymakers.