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Show I Slim Waist fhe Thing AYE LASSIE COSTS LESS; be CAUSE IT IRNSII BETTER AND toVearforGlamour W9B By sen nmES r lasts longer: r Jr wuunms WaB.a.lilaiBBWBBIaMMBWMtf'Se1B'a SYNOPSIS Barbara Sentry, seeking to sober up her escort, Johnnie Boyd, on the way home trora a party, slaps hire, and attracts the attention of a policeman, whom the boy knocks down. As he arrests him. Professor Brace of Harvard comes to the rescue and drives Barbara home. On the way they see Barbara's father driving from the direction of bis office. again. "We'll wait till he's gone upstairs," she directed. "Do you mind?" He did not mind. He asked where Johnny lived, how to get clothes to take him for his appearance in court in the morning. She gave him the number of Johnny's dormitory room. "But probably one of his s will do it," she suggested. Then an upstairs light came room-mate- CHAPTER I Continued on. 2 "There!" she said. "Father's "I'll have to admit," Brace said, "that you played the game! But if dressing. you're going to be so loyal, shouldn't you be specially careful in choosing your friends? Loyalty misplaced is pretty treacherous." "Johnny always has behaved himself before. I don't care much for cocktails and wild parties; but there are certain things you do when you're on the deb list, you know. n Mother wanted me to have one of it," replied Barbara. "Big dance at the Somerset, stag lines, all that sort of thing?" His tone was derisive. "No, I just had a luncheon at home. Father's and mother's friends, and their families. Last sea-eo- March." "Well, that." there's some sense to She laughed faintly. "Oh, we're really a pretty sensible family," she essured him. "Perfectly respectable, honestly." There was amusement in her tones. "Of course we're in trade. Father and his father and grandfather before him. Fruit and things. Oranges from Florida and all that. I suppose you professors think business is a pity; but at least we're wholesale. That's something, isn't it?" He chuckled. I ("Everything, should say." And sfie exclaimed triumphantly, "Therfe, I knew you could laugh if you tr4ed!" "But it seems such a waste of time for a girl to chase around to drunken parties " "Oh, don't be so worthy! Besides, it wasn't a drunken party. Johnny's foot slipped, that's all." He said thoughtfully: "I know his kind; see them in class right along. But I don't know the girls they run around with. You're a new breed to me." He looked at her directly. "I come from a small town," he explained. "Folks were church people. We didn't drink, or dance much, or play cards. Of course, I know the standards I learned as a youngster are now. But what have you put in place of them? What are you like? Girls your age, I mean? Yourself, and the girls you know?" "We're a pretty decent lot," she assured him. "The people ten years older than us did run wild; but the girls I know don't drink too much, d and reand they're sponsible. My older sister works every day in the hospital. She's going to marry a doctor and be a medical missionary. Mother does a lot of club work, things like that. We're the sort of family that doesn't get into the society columns very much. We don't telephone the editor every time we have people to dinner. But we're all right. Doing our jobs, behaving ourselves." She hesitated, laughed a little. "I don't know why I'm telling you the story of my life except that I sort of want you to well, to not be so sure I'm just a crazy kid. He said: "I don't! I did at first, naturally; but I can see you're not as bad as I thought." He smiled. "I suppose yours is what we think of as a fine old Boston family. Your father's turning at the next corner. Shall I follow him?" "Let him go," Barbara directed. "We'll take the next turn. Yes, I suppose we are. I never thought much about it. My sister and I do the usual things. Of course my brother's in Yale instead of Har vard, but the Sentrys have been Yale for a good' many generations And mother and father" "By the way," the professor suggested, "why not tell your father about this scrape tonight? I expect he'd like to feel that he had your un- He must have gone to the kitchen for something before he went upstairs." And when presently the light went out, "Now he's in bed!" She opened the car door. "You've really been awfully kind. Thanks a lot." She extended her humor for the day. She had always administered praise to him like a medicine, skillfully. The house was old, of brick, foursquare, with a French roof, the adslopes broken by gables that mitted light to the servants' quar- upters and storage rooms on the Arper floor. It had been built by was in what thur's grandfather, at that time open country; but now it was crowded among others, most of them of a later period, and retained only a narrow area of lawn and garden, with room for a tennis court beside the garage in the rear. A sluggish stream meandered behind the garage at an angle across the rear of the lot; and there was a pergola of brick and stone behind the tennis court, built by Arthur's father, on the bank above the waterwhere ducks came to feed. Rhododendrons ten or twelve feet high screened the house from the street in front, and there were hedges along the lot line on either side. Outside, the house was as it had been built, save for the English ivy which cloaked the walls; but inside there were changes. Arthur's mother, when she was mistress here, had torn out walls, intalled bathrooms, dressing-roomclosets; redecorated again and again. Mary was at the table when Mr. and Mrs. Sentry entered the dining-roorose punctiliously to greet them. She was a tall, lovely girl, her cheeks a little hollowed so that her cheekbones and the line of her jaw showed firmly; and her eyes were apt to be grave, even when she smiled. She wore this morning a suit of homespun, and her father, seeing this, commented: "Looks as though you're dressed for business." She nodded. "Yes," she agreed. "I'm going to the hospital." She spent part of every day there as a volunteer, tending convalescent patients, learning something of nursing and medicine in the process. The hospital was Mrs. Sentry's pet charity; but Neil Ray, rather than her mother, was responsible for the fact that Mary's interests were thus directed. Neil was studying medicine, planning to follow his father as a medical missionary in China; and he wanted Mary to marry him. "I told him," she confessed to her mother the night he proposed to her, "that I was no kind of wife for any kind of missionary!" Yet she had thereafter plunged into this work, as though thus she might deserve him. That was months ago. Mrs. Sentry had spoken her mind to Mary, with the frankness upon which she prided herself. "Ridiculous!" she said. "To go way off to China! And preposterous for him to let you humble yourself! You've lost your head over this young man." But the only result of her advice had been to awaken in Mary a defensive and antagonistic attitude, make her increasingly critical toward them all. Thus she said to Mr. Sentry now: "And speaking of hospitals, you look as though you ought to be in one, father. Been burning the candle at both ends?" "Had a bad night," he explained. "Lay awake, fighting to get to sleep, for hours." "You don't look sleepy," Mary commented, in a dry, professional tone. "You look as though well, as though your nerves were all shot." She smiled. "Probably liverish," she suggested. "Stick out your tongue!" Mrs. Sentry said in a dry tone, "Mary, I'm beginning to object to this clinical atmosphere in the home." "You find so many objectionable things about me lately, mother!" tioned again between them. But the forgiveness, naturally was only on the surface. Yet they continued to preserve the outward forms, even to sleep in beds side by side, so that not even the servants ever knew . . . Mrs. Sentry thought this morning that her ancient tolerance had been repaid. Their lives had always been outwardly serene; were serene as they grew older now . . . She rose, leaving Arthur abed;, but while she was dressing, she heard him stirring, and called, "Thought you might want to sleep." He said, "No," rather curtly. "Do well last night? Have a good game?" "Didn't hold any cards." The Thursday night bridge was in the nature of a tournament, four rubbers being played after dinner. He referred to this as he explained now: "They finished us off by half past ten. I hung around for a few don't think I'm hopeless?" and then came along He chuckled. "Maybe I can re- minutes, home." He added: "And I forgot form you!" your package from Butler's, Ellen. "Do come. Sunday evening?" They delivered it about four o'clock, "Thanks. Count on me. Good- but I left it on my desk at the night!" office." Their hands clasped. He started "It doesn't matter," she said. the car and drove away; and Bar- "Today will do." She repeated, "It bara, walking for silence's sake on doesn't matter at all," and she won- - hand. He said: "See here, Miss Sentry. May I drop in, one of these days? I'd like to know you better." Her eyes twinkled, "Then you s, blue-gra- y mid-Weste- rn level-heade- f fnnfidnee. . "No, he'd Just disapprove and be etern." h said. "He's always been uretty strict with himself, and with . ; too. Keeps leuing me now ; ry oenaveu j jvuugi giriS wasn't a bad way to behave!' it ' She. laughed. "I'll bet as many irlsTwT kissed in buggies then as ' in automobiles npw..Turn here. Our hous$4s two blocks ahead." And "That must be she exclaimed: then . -. JKin m, uuvei i father, flusi didn't He drove awfully slowly, he? Switch off your lights. Stop in the street; and we'll wait till he has pone to bea. They... stopped in front of the house, hidden Denina a nign neage and Professor Brace stilled the en sudden silence they gine. In the heard steps on gravel. "He's coming back from the she whispered; and a moment later: "There! He's opened the front door!" Light shone out, theo was dark as the doac closed : US wxwf a-- ;,. ga-age- ," Many Objectionable Things About Me Lately, Mother!" the turf beside the gravel drive, dered why she went to such pains to reassure him, realized that there went toward the house. She wondered why her father had was something like apprehension in been downtown so late tonight ; won- his tone, as though he were afraid dered what time it was; looked at what she would say. She asked hurher watch. riedly, "Who did you play with?" "Dean Hare," he said. "Against It was quarter of one. Carl Bettle and Bob Flood." She came into his dressing-room- , Mrs. Sentry, Barbara's mother, roused when her husband turned on herself ready for the day, and the light in their bedroom and got watched him knot his tie, brush his into his bed beside hers. She did hair, trim his mustache. "What a not fully wake; just asked drowsily, time you have with that, don't you?" she said, amused at his in"Everything all right, Arthur?" "Of course! Perfect!" tensity as he leaned close to the "What time is it?" mirror, his jaw depressed to draw "Quarter past eleven," he said, his upper lip taut, holding his musand she heard the rustling of the tache flat with one finger while with paper as he began to read. She many grimaces he trimmed its ragthought sleepily that he was home ged edges. He nodded, and put on coat and early. He always dined at the Club on Thursday evenings, with bridge vest, stowed odds and ends in his before and after dinner; but usually pockets, said, "Well, ready?" he was later than that in coming She felt tautness in him, a need home. He was still reading when for reassurance. "You look about she drifted back to sleep. twenty-five,- " she told him dutifully. When Nellie knocked on the door "Not a day older than Mary. You at seven next morning, Mrs. Sentry make me feel as though I had four had been some time awake, plan- children instead of three!" He ning her day. The seamstress in smiled; and she thought she had the forenoon, lunch at Mrs. Furness' succeeded in putting him in better (TO BE COXT1M ED) to hear Miss Glen speak, dinner at home this evening. Mr. Sentry did not rouse at Nellie's knock; of Like Colors; and Mrs. Sentry saw that he lay on Women his side, his back toward her; and Mixtures of Bright she noticed with a faint jealous resentment of his continued youthful-nes- s In no corner of the world has sometimes gayly embroidthat his tumbled dark hair was modern fashion in dress made less sleeves, ered. not yet thin even on the top of his headway than in the Polish countryThe Huculs run to bright colors, head. They had been married al- side. The spinning wheel and the which would be considered somber most thirty years. The children, loom still hold their place of honor, if with those of Lowicz. babies so short a time ago, were and homespun still is the garb of 75 A compared unique feature is that th women young men and women now. Mary, per cent of the peasants. wear aprons instead of skirts one so like Mrs. Sentry herself, abThere are four main groups of apron fore and another aft. The resorbed in her work at the Hospital, peasant costumes in Poland, The sult is a close fitting with taking it with a severe seriousness. two most striking are in and around plenty, of looseness forgarment and Phil, a. Junior at New Haven, Lowicz,, and on the southeastern mountain climbing. And riding this is becloser to Mrs. Sentry than either of bordef of Poland among the Huculs. ing considered by. for sport stylists his sisters, apt to tease her about The others are to be found a Variation on- the coiikOw Among wear her pride, her high head. Barbara the Gorals in the Zakopane district that Have recently been the rage. . . Mrs. Sentry reflected now that and in Upper Silesia, notes a writer The sleeveless . lambskin ecaU Barbara, the. youngest. Was almost in the Detroit News. t worn by these women also art likev a stranger, in the; family. Only Lowicz skirts are made from adapted for winter sports. between Barb and Phil, both with a rainbow wool, showing wide usually are made with the fur They side gift for laughter, was there close stripes of orange and canary yel- in, and the outer skin embroidered Mrs. Sentry low, alternating with narrow abiding sympathy. in gay colors. They give plenty of wondered lying half asleep what of blacks and browns, violetstrips and free arm play and keep the torso their other children would have been amaranth, rich chocolate hues, toasty warm. Hucul women weat like if there had been others. But purples, green and rose. But deep them all winter in yellow the icy mounof course there could not be. She seems to prevail, a as radi- tain blasts. yellow had, so far as outward appearances ant as the California poppy. The were concerned, forgiven Arthur, fashion comes straight from the Ohio's State House that old ofTenBe readily enough. "At native soil, for the women weave The state house at Columbus., least," she told him icily, that day a just what they see through their was completed in 1859. It few weeks before Barbara was born door: long, narrow fields which at Ohio, took 20 years to build it. In 1899 when he came to her in contrite con- a distance look like an annex was built on the east side fession, "there has been no scandal. stripes on the landscape. of the main structure, and in 1929 I could not forgive a scandal. So. These women wear close fitting an office building erected on the since no one knows unless she" vests with horizontal and banks of the Scioto river, donated by And the matter was never men- - their white linen blouses stripes have loose the city of Columbus. 'You Find So Peasants Poland Wear Hand wU-- and Eye Counted Primitive man gained supretta on earth because of his hand HID CJC. A lw Laughed at Iron for Ships When iron was first propped 111 at. 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