fm wfmwf'"yw l 'J wJiT ' s ' EVENING. PUBLIC LED&ER PHILADELPHIA FRIDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1922 43 I THE GUMPS-rGoed.by,J)ough! By Sidney Smith J Subconscious Courtship -" " WK SO MiXPfN VUHEH V4fcM Of TOV. SO SME KHOVAJS MM tMClE Vfc C0MIM6 HE S-ULL LOVES WEt. GV.kt TO tfc Ne- TH VXCTION COU MftbW fcEfcWT CUAHO VOU 04 A iWm ueirtfi, '' L !" niten from intntir ins with her if it told In this fascinating nevtt By BERTA RUCK Auther of "The Wrong llr. Wright," "The Arrant Hever" Bte pepvrlght, I6ti, Dedd, Mead A Ce. r v TME ?WOME M4T emH6 MM CON6KrOUCCKvAS - AND Neb ClH eACKNE MM f:UVA6 WHEN t HEKftfc Tv VALfc SHE COV)U STVCK rMN rATO HfA Hfc HVD SNS- "STOP TICKUMfc ME - TV4fc COUWTttt MOO OVTT- 0te Bfe6)t4 TO fcLtlE. Vt enuTice: SM LOUE- S SUMO- VLL SAM tVS tl. TOU HOW SOV( 1 m- V ru rVACfc FOR. N MOM- feV -mp ukvJ.. TEiF, VVJMVJ A.HD NNSKHE TOO- 1UU. Vsv..t SMlkV t ttt.t SOON-' Wjft z'- 1 Civ' .1 I .li I I 1 .1 TO K&l an !tJ "J J: mA m DBF 111 IAD. ;sai . -OR ipe 4 IM, 118 OLfl ID ilmi m'a t DBJI Ull vim OM ltd he unm uu it .iS MIO'S WHO IN THE STORY "I'MVHlt nLPIIlXSTOltE. charm- t thin ""''" , . i,,hr,-lleil n XuKs" ,itrd trim t-imt w . "v. ......, i$ "w teft" " 10.rr'. fC i'"" ft fifrfreW" te marry a husband for L'Srnkncc" te cud eff."thc harpies," 'li&y'n harpy vsmumtAKL, i'erlt H'nr rdrrifii, man of personality, tnginccr irhe nan tiivrwcu weie ,j e ;neficc ic'iicj he agrees te ' ,iriellu business propesl- H'wM wiwr flteitrs nt)SEU.UtY MEADOWS. Clever's J,i. Pretlll pMef the paied. "llJtS: mhUiOWS, aunt, tehir has J.a,a Clever In adversity and is ,Hxertd with faversl ' SANOAL, younger daughter, a fylu HOLT, Ug, geed-natured chap, U(hlully in love with Rosemary. Net In Khalil tt 1. .11.1 llilnL- (lint A Subtly the messngc lmd conveyed i'tself from his ml""! t0 hers- Xet ln JsTiakl, thanks. He'd worn t m all decency, se fnr. . Stung, she went en : "At an evems i hall went you te mafce a list of all the Xn i7eu want asked te the wedding. " ..",".. paid Oarinlchncl calmly, "de ,... . nut a lnle Miul." "fien I," MM Clever Elphlnstene, 'm net eeing te marry n man without A?''f,r.if.n'IV'L.in ..1,1 he. -'.Then he 'told hlm-clf. "Here, steady n! Needn't de uncivil " " parceling as If you were actually be C te mind what Hhe sa d. ft s a iurleus thing tnni ever huikc umi ......v. Ve"c been ruder te each ether instant ,f mere decent. Stead en ! Please yourself i I mean about your inutatlen?. nt ns or in ne-c ut uem '-mi. Uiiulitn t you, u .u "; V provide friends as well, ejightn t roil te li:nc ieiu nir "";"' . knntdii't liesin putting these new lues into tlie contract new. cw: u erj IJOll.v inura it jtviintwl!" .he retorted. "Don't you see low odd it would he If you dldn tl Fricnils of the bride a big cnu-h en wic wile of the church. The ether side fmptv becaute tuc irienus ui me urrac urrac ruem don't materialise. What would t Ionic like:" "Like nothing en cnrtli, he admit- tl n trllle detiantly. "Hut don't tlie.r lit (Shrrinccg ure mnde In heaven?' Hlic jjnve n tiny ouieursi 01 wwr. pi.i(.n lip rensennble. Anyhow, yen've liet te be. liere. If you actually haven't get nny friends " "They nre mostly killed as a mat r nf fnrt." he nut in Krimlr. "I am err herry," said Clever quickly, gently, in a eicc he hadn't hfnnl. "I am sorry." Fer lie had touched the chord which vibrates in the heart of any woman at tike tight of that stone or column te f lessen net up in a city ciiurcn. en, every ,village green throughout our land "te tee glory et i.eu ami 10 tnose wne.gavc .their lives, l!)14-ltH8." Cottage posy .anl costly wreath lie side by side nt the feet of these memorials. They, as iiemt feehlicr said of the Cenetuph, -mean riirintmn names te nil of us. t She wondered what Christian namet .vrc tbey te Harry Carmlchnel? Who lad Ixen Ills best friends? Had he cared le ileeply for friendship, this man who eared nothing for love? Friendship had been Liken fiem him. Power he'd never hud r.vcept through the channel of her money, lie must lack every means te Hires all of himself that mattered. He hadn't had much of a time up te new, bad he? v Tlic meditation", however, were jiet n the bend; after a necend's imiunc It-was as thelish thnt sehtler voice nf Clever's had never spoken. , uer eui test tone resumed: "Guests I some sort ou must have, please, w you'd better get s,eme. What about taesf men be nre going te be useful te Joti?.Tliete mnst people you have te fcnrvall tlw-e lunches for? (Jet them. ileli must li.1x lind I.ninit1ilnif in iln .!" them already? Oct them from the Air Mllllstrv niul frnm lhi rlnii.. nt llrpWnpiiig. And from the highways and JMgcs and the huts in St. Jnniea lark If m;ii Hlcc. Ii'r nil in Hi., e-.-wui ir Jfe'u have really nosh weddliiB fdeji't tMI call It that?) te nblc thesu luml- Mr es te: the tort of function thnt gets mi rt'iierieii in cnuiep.s columns. It s 11 te your ciedit. don't you see, te be We te show them a rather luindbeme 1uu. 11 T , '"" iui ue n 'rather inndNimie fumlhm" ad a hostess who would de them ,. rll'8 point, new. as among the wings Cnrmlehucl lmd seen already. He Mu considered her ns n hestets for his . lie had realized that ehe pos pes weu fereblght, tact when she chose. organization. BclNuet.saKflinn na v meana. ,ui new. striding with her through n rain, he didn't think of these 'ilngs again ; he repeuted te himself f'r calmly npprnlHlng words, "rather landseme." "nnthpp"? nt f fOjirje she Knew she was quite beautl- , ; ....... nun 11 IfUHK PtHUll' R1..1.0 Ioe.k at ns far as that weut MO-weil, everything. He glanced t lie could see of her profile, la.l n.nln.l U n A .!,.!.. If a" Le''",c "le buttoned-up cellar JVhe,wl'ile taipaulln coat and the Jn of her crisp rain-hat. All her tlies ere as well "done" ns these JL y llulfiinH' Yet Clever Klphln- IJtMiiA '. aK" Ulat l,len(' O' etlntlness tS2iA.n.fu ?ut,loer healthfulncss that vMZ u 1 ?ib?st typ'H of Kngllshweman; uulKl, T he,,r r,,r1?UH mixture of scent "ISr it !.Csh.,,,ir' "f,lux"i-.v with "rough "reugh XtWdS L ,,vr ,,ll,p co,(l downpour nd 8HfciJ,,lr'.l,,,B lwl l '"I" afternoon's taiS'i r" 2 fl"n' Ln.VP woman Am..-. ".! jHiiwi urn "(lanuiest' "ue !Um lTBkml '.W'er? . Utteie nra ni.m..,..,l i.. ,,. I'aln 11,.. . v.. ""'i,r""iii ler uvinz r ... luniiiH worst PllmntnM .ii these weie Iliimrn ('armiiihn.i t. Sfflff.1". euld wilt into naller. fh Ji,,'", '"" '"'. What foreigner can "M. - III! II, II HI U,llr. k .At. m. l.ln.l suis iigiew with gayety "!.. "'" """ and charm weie nut irnl iWtke- ,,5 S.l,Ml llls '""St would have "-meiim,.' I. ,nui''" magnet sm of ieilth,,.i.V ,rp.m' J'iv. far below thesi ".fWiiL . "," Mined nil lllinrlrnnii-l.il.ru.1 ddBinier tieiiln "if .1- :.." """ '""?" :.",' '1 It were nil for met" if .11.1 '-l.. K"0W, hp did net. ppnllre! NM ...Jill f;!;' '" "till h Imagined that pSa i.i5,7,l,B.., maT' h "Imply Tntien. lurtiicung of nts 'k0 lw accents! ln. -,.n., -i.... .1.- Kile nt .1 ' : . . i..lli UUUUl IIIU WMt riie c'lng festivities. Red Ntdbc CT," .,0 Westminster 'i'A far . " 5u.f',:l:l wu cieseu, iWW I ihe?d ellcat ,ubJct D0W ' eenM 1.. u t kii. v.!vt ." w nar cm out T?.v OMDIPPE nf hnn.M JfWht anrrlyT ' moene. She, we only l mention that part of It I" Yet raVat)hfrnii)ln. nt u -.n- M. tume, the white shoe tied behind the iur, iae Drnnn new luggage, the last farewells and wishes for all happi ness. The lesi honeymoon there actually was the mere there would have te Seem te be. s This obvious truth struck both of them simultaneously ns they strode through the drinnlnir dunk. Vnr nt Ir-nut a quarter of n mile they said no mere. He was consciously thinking for the first time what n wild and insane Idea : n honeymoon, deliberately planned and minus well, honey. Perhaps it was all right. Lets of women, he'd heard, would actually prefer that side of mar riage kept clean out of their lives: beautiful and otherwise normal women, known ns "anesthetics." The scentless-rose type. Tbl3 girl was evidently one of them. HubcoiiHcieus thought here stirred again, whispering, "Impossible! Could she .dance like thnt, If hIic couldn't love? A bccntlcss rose? She, with her pagan delight In scent and color and the ether sensuous things? Net she. 'I don't like men,' she said. She meant that. Only It is all te nwaken. Supposing you could de that? Wouldn't you love te find out If you could? Other wise, oughtn't you te leave her until the right mnn turns up te awaken her? Perhaps even that Elizabethan mountebank would 1ms better. Ah, you hate thnt idea! Doesn't it mean that already you have begun te leek upon her ns your own?" This whispered in him, still, still unheard by his consciousness ns is the tuiys played en the notes of a muted piano. All that he was aware of was the insane, the Infernal nuisnnce of this honeymoon Idea. Thus his thoughts. Hers, meanwhile, were taking a turn new te herself. Somewhere in the very depths of Clever who was Elphlnstene Brethers with four managers, and the power te safck or te advance men. there stirred another Clever. Thls Clever (strange ly forlorn and bewildered) wondered girlishly why she was unlike ether girls? Ne ether girl she'd known would calmly elect te enter the state of matri mony en these, lines. She, Clever, found It the way te live. Hut imagine, for instance, Rosemary ! If Rose mary hadn't get the eternal Jim she would have had thc'eternal somebedv else, but nobody en these terms. Rose Rese mnry would go off presently en a real honeymoon or none. Then, imagine Lavender, already married. Lavender was hard up and harried by these babies. But. if Lavender had the chance of waving a wand niul becom ing de-marrled.' free, comfortably off for the test of a spinster existence, would she accept the chance? Would she, even rctnlnlng her title of ,"Mrs." and her outward tnntren prestige? Never. Clever knew thnt Lavender would say loudly "rather " and odd. softly, "net," and that Laven der's eyes would suddenly light up with a mischievous, a secret gleam that they had when she Was teasing her cousin about marrying "again." Then, little Sandal, the youngest of them all, and Clever's favorite San dal, who for nil her precocious risque prattle about the facts of life, cnuld visualize none of them yes, even Sn dal knew enough te knew whether she'd cheese the type of wedding -trip that Clever (unbeknownst te all) meant te have. Clever could hear Sandal's unabnBhed treble scream of "What? A Platonic honeymoon? Yeu menn no kissing? A vinegar-moon? Oh, net for me, thanks passionately!" Very well, then. She, Clever, innit be abnormal; a frenk-weman. This re pellent young man beside her knew that. He'd never have entered Inte this con tract with her if he'd thought she was like ordinary girls. Her flair told her this. Savagely angry she felt about the whole thing. An impulse te say "leek here! Supposing we break it off before it's tee Tate?" rose up In her ns it had risen in him a fortnight age. She sup nressed it, even as he hnd done, and It left her full of renewed obstinacy and bravado. floueyineon Plans Driving her hands down into her coat pockets, she began in the Kipmnstone Kipmnstene Kipmnstone Brethers voice "Then, when we come back " "Back?" he took up, with a quick turn toward her j he was net absolutely sure if she meant what he wns think ing. "Back where from?" She thought. "Oh. you irritating nnd obtuse clod, why will you mnke every thing se difficult? Is it en purpose? See if I don't take it out of you for this when I can." 8he said, "bnck from wherever we go te." She shook the raindrops from her hat -brim, lifted her softly cleft chin out of her buttoned-up cellar, and looked straight ahead. "I'd thought of the obvious place for just new; Paris." "Paris! De you mean for after the wedding?" She. sharply Irritnted. nearly broke out with a Sandal-like retort of "well, we couldn't very well go there before the wedding!" Thinking one thing, she uttered an an ethei thing. "Yeu knew very well that's get te be part of it. We have te go away. And stay away. Fer for at least ten days." Albe thinking ln ether words from these he uttered, Carmlchnel took up "ten dnys? Most inconvenient for me just new " "Se it is te me. De you suppose it amuses me te leave the office just new when I've one or two Interesting deals en? De you suppose I like dashing across the Channel at this moment just for the leek of it? Penenally I hate it and the whole notion of the wed ding hells and the crush, and everything else, but it's get te be. "Yeu don't like Paris? I'm sorry, and if it would de for me te go ever there alone, I wouldn't drag you, but " "Paris? I believe I'm due for Pul hnin just about then." Out came the tiny leather-bound diary again. "Yes, by '.love. On the sixteenth' " "I," Clever went relentlessly en. "shall stay at the Maurice. I will wilte about the rooms. There is a little ehepplng I can get in in Iho morn ings. Yeu needn't come with me there. It'll de, I think, if we nre seen out te gether sometimes, And nt meals. And! ou can tnue me te tlie tuentre in the J-venlng I will find out what people like us nre supposed te like te see. Yeu will hae te postpone your ether en gagement for a week." "Very well," he ceded. It was after all the first time she had asked him te postpone anything, whereas he had put tier oft several times during their parade-engagement. "Very well, we go te Paris. Ah It happens I knew seniu people ever there that I d lilee te leek up. Kronen wireless men, rather decent chaps. tlrr 403f MMtMSTw llf&r JSV flpKAAp fjTT77l i ' jii.1 SOMEBODY'S STENOG Melly a Perfectly Levely Girl, ONLY! OH SM, I SAW MOLCf UST AU&W-l -tDU KEMCMBEK VtULLTt UUHT j YOU ? SHE HASAfT CHAAf&ED a -put MAkitL-Airrr a. bit: r-J 7 1 V 'feZi.it n 3p- . 1 j ..r W " ' I SHl,K jf ft Ma v ' " Mm SHE VMS ALIAS'S SAFE AM' SANE.-AJEVBR HAO HER HAIR BeBBEt SHE. WORE 'dA Te The AAtkLE. WhEai WE HEMMED AT THE KAJEE. A LOVELY (SlRL-BUT-OU AiOW WHAT 1 -ME.AA1. SHE CAi TALK AM HOUR ABOUT THE TIME SHE HAD AT THE CHURCH rAiF I904 TH,I VtAKE'iau She blushes Red "" li kb a tomato WHEMSHETfiLL nmiT THE TIMt HER ESCORTS CAR J BU&TtOM 'H& WAV HOWE 'AH SHE DIOATfiiT HOME. TIL eleveaj-thirty: HI&OHZ WILD vH 'SHT ' f .fMfW 5mMi,& ( iW$L vTXiisl bzt7)Ay"T' V Thats her Ta& ALLPI6HT SHE CAM SlHG, ALICE BEAJ RnLT VAITH THE SAME OLD PEE-Ufi - BUT SHE 'A LOVELY SlRL- YH - X KMOVi -cSeES VE.LU WITH A SAIMY SUNDAY AIIShT BUT HER c3as De4t test high EaOUGH FbR A Paptv Ciiimiii 'svtiire y I vjalxiki pace itL S' Registered S Patent Odlce By Hayward i j 1 irs tffiK: ., 'ifcOJr MCi $ mm m i '" II ' MS&r I T' that's it, she's Th?0tti.gd DOVWAI OO MUCH - -flWMP "'J u fcnlP yeh ehb of Them Dames who still, ' Olls A LAfG A "LiMB. 3J c. - ;-i Wv Ha "I SlK) ' .) sjms - t--- 1 r- ti 1 "B "- 3X OpynjK. int. ty Puiic it c. . ..i .r The Yeung Lady Acress the Way IP unt Eppie Hegg, the Fallcr.t Weman in Three Counties w: Bu Fontaine Fex The young lady across the way says she doesn't see much sense in all this fuss ever the Dardanelles when there are se many ether places te go. ZAAJ,. . t -s y$ 4. " AenT fPE t-CLl. WHILE- G01HC TrleUGH THC H.r. CuLVHT J.AST WMtl.AND TrhfftC OM YHft CAKE 0f flKfi- WAS PLecKfiD re,. eVCrt. YHrtce. HeUrtS. SCHOOL DAYS mtfj&ij' sf r-sp 60SHJ ?0ST WHKJ NOT SO VKW ICN6 K3 DWIG PETEYWhat Is Worse Than a Saxophone? Twe! m NOT SO VKtf ICN6 $W R,Cnr goeT HERG -$0 WJmit 1 I ! Of ?eTey DtTAn. A . Tttk l '5 6WTe cause. 4 7i C' J 1R90BCE AiniAlHE ( A y yMAM QVrvusTAitgy, me- ) ID LIKE TO ScElWATUWO !fe( Te STep NtE LET HIM SUE ME HE CAM'T DO MOTHJMG TO SCA1?E ME OUTA A UTTce AKuSEMEMT lHI5 IS A FEE CrtUUTrV AiuT IT '' -- $ - r- tM)T I tmm "- f . AT A j2Kjw F f - AICXJL, ALL AK IS llAV OFFA ME- IHlfeUIMC Neu let HlK Meve: .. OUT IF ME" DOUT UKC IT' UUtff- 'GASOLINE ALLEY The Tall, Dark Man Again By C. A. Voight IHA ?? J IfrffXS WHAT I VET BETW "faVIMCTeTfeLu wN0U HE 11HIMKS Mew That its Aitpicut rHIHTeTAWerruP? '', v-rj. r '-t 11 uij n. LOOK ATSKEE2IX' AND HIS FirlE RED CHEEKS I WISH I HAD SOME LiKE THAT? " I TMtHK VOU HAVE BY THE WAY. HOW S HERMAM THESE By King m fS II n r. m i : : : : T .. ,....- MI Jutn v 4? t-e J J I TMIHK Yeul f v jSSLj&F " I I'll (I HAVE BY THE ) "" r w ' r -1 ( HERMAN WASN'T DOWN U---'' ! WAY.HOW.SL l ' VEKTl rWELLHEWA? HE TO SBB ME-W NOW WHAT IM THeA I ffl . SEEN MM iMi-p -rue 1 f isuie im -rvie 3 I - .. J 'S J ' iM. i, MtKnAM THESE - " ""- -wr,. , ... ..c . -aUKfc Ht CAMt TO r&-'-- 1 f nifWPNC i-rvii ucev ' . JSf.?, y V . . HIAUT Vrtii T S I i n i.-r,. && j1- S V v- ni-i-in 1 . 1 - -r r" YOXPsfJf p T r.:. -H """' " im bE YOU ' r ME ? - want with me 7 rr--S r , tM e LCc' v- ., -w wm-ii-ich, . 1 TO "aEE YOU l . "-f &g?&k A- fT N " i1 f if" r-Vrw -v -i' i ' s -a v ypstebdav i ir . 1 s ' ki.vasTx - - .h -r-' n '; wPr If T nf) 1 1 2 P i v'TpT' iaA Irr ia "T ,,lvl, Vr ' Ik u &i 111 111 1 rJM)Jteiu4fe- iTIf y 1, y1. (1' A VX k,, 1 y u HxwJ" ill'' ...... I m m ill 1 V Hk" HiI I xNC . t .iiiw I II JJs ' 1 I M Vi 23 HK linn, nt least VOU'U nave sem. 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