HOUSEHOLD QUESTIONS \, Time to Wax Floors.—Wax fin- ishes on floors should be renewed every four to six months, depend- ing on the amount of wear on the floor. * * * Preserving Linoleum.—To keep linoleum in good condition, rub it with linseed oil once or twice a year, during spring and fall house cleaning. . * ® To Stiffen Taffeta.—Taffeta is apt to become limp when washed. To stiffen it, wring a sponge or cloth out of borax water and wipe on the wrong side of the silk; then iron, when nearly dry, on the wrong side. * * * Heat Before Polishing.—Knives will brighten quickly if heated be- | fore being polished. Dip them in | a basin of boiling water and rub each blade before it cools. » * * Raisins and Nuts in Cakes.—If you will roll nut meats in flour be- fore adding to the cake mixture, nuts will not fall to bottom of cake. This should also be done when raisins are used in cakes. » * »* Native wit in a backwoodsman | delights the cultured more than all the smartness of their asso- | ciates. Mail Order Denture Business Victorious In Court Decision © Ben Ames Williams, SYNOPSIS Barbara Sentry, seeking to sober up her escort, Johnnie Boyd, on the way home from a party, slaps him, and attracts the attention of a policeman, whom the boy knocks down. As he arrests him, Professor Brace of Har- vard comes to the rescue and drives Barbara home. On the way they see Barbara's father driving from the direction of his office at 12:45, but when he gets home he tells his wife ft is 11:15 and that he's been playing bridge at the club. Next day Sentry reports his office has been robbed and a Miss Wines, former temporary employee, killed. The evening papers luridly confirm the story, takes it hard. Mary, elder daughter, in love with Neil Ray, young in- terne at the hospital where she works, goes Mr. and Mrs, Sentry call on ¢ld Mrs. Sentry, receives Dan Fisher, Phil Sentry, son at Yale, is disturbed at the possible implications and suspicion of Miss Wines’ absence from her rooms for three days during August. He goes home to help Sentry is arrested and booked for murder. and Barbara, alone, changed since Miss Wines’ employment there—that a back door key, a duplicate of Sentry's, was found in the girl's purse, Brace calls, and because of the dis crepancy of time between the slaying and Phil, show- knew of, gone. Meanwhile, the police find the stolen money burned in the furnace. False teeth may be measured and sold by mail as readily as in a dentist's chair, according to a court ruling, says a recent news | item in the Chicago Daily Tribune. | The United States Dental Com- | pany of Chicago reports that its | business both in the United States | and outside is growing very rap- idly; that its quick, easy, econom- ical way of fitting and construct- | ing dentures from finest materi- | als, with expert craftsmanship, at | very low prices, is an achieve- ment of this age. Thousands of | grateful letters in its files from satisfied customers all over the | country testify to this. This is a distinctly worthy serv- ice to people who work in the fields, mountains, or other places where it is inconvenient for them to find local dentists to make good teeth for them at low prices. Adv. Our Main Props The objects that we have known in better days are the main props | that sustain the weight of our af- fections, and give us strength to await our future lot.—Hazlitt, Wait, Mother. | Ask Your Doctor First his innocence, and tells her he had known of the robbery and murder the night before, but failed to call the police, and came home Mary quarrels with Neil Ray. CHAPTER V-—Continued — “So we might as well make them!” Mary repeated defiantly, “Yes, marry them!’ Mrs. Sentry stood up quickly; but Mary cried: “Don’t! Don't say anything! I thought you might wish me luck, Linda urged, ‘“‘But Mary, your real friends—"" Mary laughed, almost tolerantly. Maybe you love Phil. And maybe you don't feel as Neil did. Oh, I don't blame him! He couldn't marry a murder- Mrs. Sentry whispered something, but Mary said in reckless cruelty: “Oh, he did it, mother! You'll know, sooner or later. Coming back from Southampton last August, I met Is- abel Hedges in New York. You don’t know her, but she knew father by sight, and she told me she had seen you and him at a hotel in New Jersey; kept exclaiming about how young you looked! Trying to get a rise out of me, but I-" Mrs. Sentry's ears were ringing as though from a physical blow, so “Maybe he'll wriggle out of it! The police may not find out about that. But I won't be made to testi- fy about it. I'm going away!” Mrs. Sentry did not protest. She “Yachting in the Caribbean!” serve a summons on me “Yachting?” “Jimmy Endle's taking me.” “Mr. Endle?” Mary laughed. “Don’t be a par- And don't sound so shocked, and his No one spoke. She added, in A mother may save a few pennies giving her children unknown prep- arations. But a child's life is pre- ¢ious beyond pennies, So—Ask your doctor before you five any remedy you don’t know all about. And when giving the common children’s remedy, milk of mag- pesia, always ask for “Phillips” Milk of Magnesia. Because for three generations Phillips’ has been favored by man physicians as a standard, reliable and proved preparation — marvel- ously gentle for youngsters. Many children like Phillips’ in the newer form — tiny peppermint- flavored tablets that chew like candy. Each tablet contains the giuivalent of one teaspoonful of the guid Phillips.” 25¢ for a big box. A bottle of Phillips’ liquid Milk of Magn=sia costs but 25¢. So any. one can afford the Jentina Careful mothe?s ask for it by its full name “Phillips” Milk of Magnesia.” PHILLIPS’ MILK OF MAGNESIA % IN LIQUID OR TABLET FCRM ADVERTISING IS as essential to business as is rain to growing crops. It is the keystone in the arch of successful merchandising. Let us show you how to apply it to your business. —] wanted you to know where I'd Mrs. Sentry, at last, spoke stead- “You're a grown woms- “You must do as you decide.” She rose. “Try to be happy, dear,” she said, and kissed her daughter. “Now may 1 help you pack?” she asked. “I'm not taking anything, just go- ing as I am,” the girl said. She added, almost appealingly, *“Jim- my's outside, mother." “I'm sorry, Mary. him.” Mary nodded in curt defiance. “All right. Then that's alll Good- by!” She went out into the hall They heard the front door close. Tires rolled away. ily enough. I—can't see When Mary was gone, Mrs. Sen- try looked at Phil with bleak eyes, and at Linda; she turned then, with- out speaking, to face the hearth where logs were blazing. Phil start- ed toward her, but Linda touched his arm, caught his eye, shook her head. Then they heard someone come softly down the stairs; Bar- bara, a woolly bathrobe warm and soft over her night garments. She stood in the doorway, her eyes clouded as though she had been asleep; and after a moment she asked: “Who was that? I thought it was Mary? Where igs she?” Phil saw his mother’s shoulders move in a long shudder, as a cold dog shivers to keep warm ; she hesi- tated, spoke then to her son. “Good night, Phil,” she said. “Linda--Good night!” She turned to her daughter. “Barbara, come up- stairs. I'll tell you.” Barbara's eyes were wide with shapeless fears; but she did not speak. Only she put her arm around her mother’s waist, half-supported her as they:moved away. Phil and Linda were left alone. After a moment he asked hoarsely, “Want to go home?” She shook her head, her eyes deep. ‘Not yet. Come, Phil, sit down." He obeyed her, sat leaning for- ward, his elbows on his knees, star- ing at the fire. After a while he said bitterly, ‘““Well, Mary's gone off the deep end!” Linda did not speak. ‘“Maybe she's the sensible one,” he reflected, half despairing. “Maybe she's right. But-—I didn't think she was a quitter!” “You mustn't blame her,” Linda urged. “Mary has always—taken things hard, Phil. She loved Neil, had a right to count on him; so when he failed her—'"" “He—had to, Linda. What else could he do? He couldn’t afford to be mixed up in a mess like this. It would have followed him every- where." “The things we're afraid of are ’ LA I broke it open myself. You know how you do lie, when you're scared.” “Of course.” He went on: “Then they found some ashes in the furnace, where some money had been burned, They could tell it was money. They think father brought it home that night, to make the thing at the office look like burglars, and burned it.” He looked at her miserably. “And now ~—this thing Mary hinted. That was August, and Miss Wines was away in August! He did it, Linda!” “Phil, you're giving up too eas- ily!” “Gosh,” he protested miserably, “how can I help it? He took her to New Jersey; and he had a key to the office made and gave it to this girl. Probably he used to meet her there—"' She urged: “But Phil, Mary may be wrong! Or the girl who told her may be wrong! And as for the rest of it? Well, suppose someone else planned to kill her and wanted to make it look as though your father did it. They could have stolen the gun, and burned some money in the hy SNE job on your hands. Your mother thought he wasn't—well, And of Barbara too, Phil. Barbara's an awfully sweet girl. You mustn't ever let her believe he did it, Phil, it would just kill her.” “1 see what you mean. it's up to me, all right.” “You'll have to be awfully good to your mother, Phil.” And she said: “The thing you'll all have to do is not think about yourselves very much. Think about each other. You see, Mary just thought about her- self, and how unhappy she was, and how her life was wrecked; and she didn’t stop to think about the rest of you, and that you needed her.” He nodded soberly, went on: “At least, that's the way it looks to me, Phil. You've all got to have something to hold on to, and the best thing for you to do is to just set your teeth into the job of tak- ing care of your mother and Bar- bara.” She suggested: “Maybe you can make your mother think you never so bad when they really hap- pen,” she said. ‘He's dodging shadows.” “He was sensible!” “I don't call it that.” Phil said gently: woman wouldn't look at it the way a man does. Women lose their heads.” “And their hearts, Phil.” “You can't argue about it, I suppose.” She smiled a little. *“Women can always find reasons to justify do- ing what they really want to do. But I don't think reasons matter so much as wanting.” Phil looked at her, curiously. “You're pretty grown up in some ways, Linda. Lots older than I am, in the way you look at things.” “Women are always older than men," He pounded fist into palm with a slow vehemence, curiously elo- quent; he muttered, “Gosh, Linda, what are we going to do?” “Just—live. Just go on living.” He whispered pitifully: ‘Poor Mary. Marrying Jimmy Endle. He's rotten, isn't he? And he must be forty. Gosh, why did she do it?” Linda did not answer. He said mis- erably: “I thought father was pret- ty grand, Linda. Of course he and I never saw very much of each oth- er.” He grinned ruefully. “But I've grown up thinking of us, of our family, of myself, as settled and se- cure. I felt as though I could play around for a while all right, be. cause when 1 was ready I could al- ways step into a place that was— waiting for me.” He looked at Lin- da, hopelessly. She shivered, folded her arms across her bosom as though she were cold. “It just tears me in two, Phil, to seé you so hurt!” He said: “It doesn’t really hurt, somehow. I don’t realize it yet, I suppose. I wonder if I ever will It sort of seems as though we were all dreaming or something.” And he said, as though to speak were somehow comforting: “Mary's right. Father—did it, you know. I've known that since the day they came here to search the house. Inspector Irons went up to my room, and he found this lock box under my couch. A fellow out West gave me an old revolver once, a sort of relic. It hadn’t any cartridges in it, but I kept it hidden in that box, locked away, because mother hates guns. But someone had broken the box open and the gun was gone; and father was the only one who knew where it was. That scared me, so I told the Inspector that I kept reels and things in the box, told him furnace, and thrown the gun in the river back of the garage—"' He echoed, startled: “In the riv- er? Was the gun in the river? I saw them dragging for something!” “Yes,” she admitted. *“‘The pa- pers say they found it there!” He shivered, and she insisted again, “But Phil, someone else might have done all those things.” “Who?” “Why-—anyone! Oscar, or Eli, or some man that knew the girl, or even Mr. Loran.” “Shucks, Linda, you're joking!” “No, I'm not!" He looked at her squarely. “‘Hon- est, cross your heart, don’t you think father did it?” She tried to speak, said then hon- estly: “I suppose I do, Phil. I sup- pose I was just trying to find some way to—comfort you. But Phil, it isn’t for us to decide, anyway.” And she urged: “And we can't give up. You see, Phil, we're pretty young. You know the way babies are. The least little thing just looks awfully black to them, and they scream as if they were heart-broken. We're sort of like that, probably. Things will straighten out somehow.” “Gosh, I don’t see how!" “And besides, Phil, you've got a need her terribly, and make her see that Barbara does too. That will help her.” Phil said, “Barbara's been great, all along, making jokes and being funny and trying to make us laugh, sort of like a puppy putting on an act, trying to get his master to play.” He asked: "But what's go- ing to happen now, Linda? What can we do to help father?” “lI don't exactly know,” Linda confessed. “Except of course you'll get a lawyer for him, and do what- ever the lawyer says.” His eyes widened with sudden panic. ‘Linda, can they make me be a witness against him, about the gun, things like that?” “1 suppose they can.” sionately. ‘‘None of us will.” about it. will help you, though.” He nodded. much the police know," he reflected. His eyes clouded. "They didn’t know about the money in the furnace till after they arrested him, nor about the gun. something!” {TO BE CONTINUED) Dress for You, and An Outfit for Dolly BusY days are coming-—you don’t want to undertake labo- rious sewing tasks, and these de- signs have been greatly simpli- fied, so that you can quickly and easily make them. The house dress is one of the prettiest prin- cess styles you ever put on—very flattering to the figure. 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