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Show """mrrmi. THE LEIII SUN. LEHI, UTAH ( i I n s- - h ; I Bg t 8 tali su !tu m sU 00(1 hsto frorr 'Iassi wool m ove are ( ncaJ ttafl ID l" 'i listed J ireal'f laldinf 5crap; It at "J&2 r KI3 Mir" . lj EYE O KATHLEEN NORRIS-WNU SERV1CB ntlnued L r. Frank steadily. i Lb to smile or ffther chair, the apri- ..horface, her blue ft 0,1 thov looked at nee. Color had Wr'v face, too. After 5 kindest-hls 'be'iald. And after sf' ..j t "I'm ter Z, all right." Sheila as-mPlv. as-mPlv. clearing ber VAnd for lon time t1 tn And anything 0IH LiTound-kind of flat-for rf that I like you-awfully. Fran present word laugh. th an wn-" rag!ai" Sheila responded ; honestly. no at n""i S young, almost child- big chair, with C hat curving oil her face r a hor onnnerv ,Vi cap. "u rr -ffrfmost to her blue eyes. W says you're moving to ...V. be glad. Sheila?" echoed. "Angela ana rfwhere'U Joe be? odCeelywanttoget mar- ..j nnw they can?" U) told Ma that if she'd V eight nouses rmwu u Lwuldn't have 10 pay any get paid, herself." she like that idea. Sneuai" .! it vai an answer to sad Joe is working. place s i long pause. Sheila Ue ought to go, now. But U refused to obey the lan-Ck. lan-Ck. nf her mind. She (o-sbe ought to go tewAA end it When she W she never wouia see W The black thick hair, dark-blue of tne snaven k the little half-smile he so W ber, and the ways in lira so old and so wise nil in which he was so Wit simple all gone, out when she walked out tit fcber the night you first fc, you you were all got- 1 1 beggar." Frank re-1 re-1 came into the hall and m who had let the rag- ind she said that Ger- (he way, where is that ".the money, luckily, I tana," Sheila explained. N purse I lost I had it up mouse in Connecticut, I A because my make-up X and I powdered my nose remember that But then & excitement of getting W fte queerness of it all. p somewhere. And I m hat the day of the I Bilnk I owe you a hat" t Ma don'tl This one." a him, "cost me ninety- P' It was in a window. f 1 every hat with the two tits lying next to it" to copper cents?" t to it Your change C she explained. "M UD. gmilino annA. took her hand. 18 toe for no more. Sud- m sounded in the hall. temendous uproar. Peter m me room. F ke shouted. r-i snort at the steht nf And they found wrecked?" "They say the fellows must h. stopped using it right after they took us up there." "This is interesting!" Frank said. "Frank, they'd like to ask Shoii, some questions. Could she and t an over there now?" Hang it," Frank said, "vmi nnh. to have someone, Fop or me, with you!" We don't need anyone!" How much-" There was h excitement in Frank's voice. "How much'd I have to walk. Pete if i went with you?" "Oh, Frank, you oughtn't!" Rhoiu protested. Shucks, it can't hurt me!" You wouldn't have to walk . step, Frank. We can get a tavi I'd like to go. I'd know u,h,. they were after." It wouldn't hurt you a bit." I don't believe it would." svor,i. said slowly. "Aw, come on, Frank! Come All they want is to ask Sheila a few questions." "It wouldn't take us fifteen minutes" min-utes" the invalid mused, tempted. "You were out yesterday." Peter urged. "You managed that all rigni. , "I know. What harm can It do" Frank exclaimed, throwing hesitation hesita-tion to the winds. "Get me my coat Pete." He hobbled to the head of the stairs, managed them easily; Sheila fearfully fluttering ahead, with his stick and his hat, and Peter accompanying accom-panying him anxiously and warning, ly. They reached the lower hall, moving slowly but steadily to the front door. "I'm all right. I feel fine!" Frank said. The taxi was waiting; they could see it as they reached the top of the brownstone steps. Sheila took the stick again; Peter again caught a firm hold of his brother's arm. They had gained the sidewalk when a limousine drew up ahead of the taxi, and three women and a stout, gray-headed man got out. The man was Judge Paul Mc Cann; one of the ladies was his wife. The other two were Gertrude Keane and Bernadette Kennedy. Peter, Frank and Sheila stood rooted to the pavement, the recent arrivals stood stricken, too, gazing at them, at the taxi, back at them again. "Well, you have both the boys now, haven't you?" Bernadette Ken nedy finally said sweetly. . . Kathleen Xorris was almost pure Kam. Sheila w or of" im, rain e"in. tag customers where everything in Uw .tor. was to be found. A small Jh ngta would stand near her hand, and printed on it bZ "1SS Caadden "ad been chosen because of her exceptional excep-tional courtesy and efficiency. It yo" ,f'Ve hcr real Ple"ure to help "The Place is full 0f that sort of bunk, but who cares? I don't care what they think about me." Sheila had said, indulgently, upon report ing this fact. "I'm reformed, any-way," any-way," she had added. "I'm all for citizenship and helpful house spirit-I spirit-I m going in for character building, clean finger nails, and a low. rich voice." Shefla," Sheila he said. responded, simply. glad lOOkine flt eanh en Peter, with . itement, turned toward uJu Know fefor this!" 1 matter" H round tho' t v . KP!aCe tt teUows few toe farmhousel" -aanei "r. ew a plan of police? WeHlis-,kaa WeHlis-,kaa to iee vn I ft..; r "6: V7;Ir.ank' two school fsaT a or omething ltoundsigiisof fai . . ianK interrupt- ' excited as bis KfcThi country em OPhoned here. go; you were lue 'I never lold you and Angela ex actly what happened, Ma," Sheila said. She had washed her bright cop pery hair, and as it tumbled in rings and fishtails on her neck, the spring sunshine struck dazzling lights from it A towel was spread across her shoulders, and belted trimly about the curves of her young body was an old blue cotton kimono. The three women of the Carscad- den family were in the sunroom of their new home. It was the corner house of a commonplace block of two-story, two-flat buildings that stretched in every direction across the gently rolling levels of what had recently been a dump for the greatest of all the cities. On top of the dump real-estate developments de-velopments had been started; every corner bore signs advertising the merits of this "five-room home" or that The downstairs apartments were all alike; all had five rooms, one bath, and this delightful feature of a sun-porch; a square, bare, unimaginative un-imaginative twelve by seven feet of space at the front glassed in from the street Blocks of it, miles of it and the Carscaddens' particular corner only one of a thousand corners. But to them it was no less than heaven. As for their mother, she had been in a state of dignified outrage since SheUa's latest escapade, and had been reluctant to express enthusiasm enthusi-asm about anything. But it was noted that her first act in the new home had been to gather her children chil-dren about her: Sheila, Angela. Joe, Cecilia, Marg'ret and Mar-g'ret's Mar-g'ret's Lew, Neely and his Lizzie, and, kneeling down, solemnly to recite re-cite some litanies that were to bring blessings upon the God-given increase, in-crease, and solemnly to assure the listening saint3 that rainer uiau have one mortal sin committed beneath be-neath this new roof, she would resign re-sign the new domain gladly and gratefully, and go back to the poverty pov-erty and obscurity of the old days again. And this ceremony had ld her children more than any words of hers might have done, excactly what significance the adventure had for Ma. And Ma, for the first time, had a room to herself. And Sheila had gotten a Job. 'Ma Sheila had pleaded, and it was then that she had added, while she spread and tossed her blazing hair, "I never told you and Angela vuiai reauy nappened. Ma." ah U'jo. preserve me that you iver wud!" her mother said simply. meres niver a breath of blame cud be said against ye, but we'll all be up in the Death Row itself if iver ye get another chance to do good to somebody, or get yourself out of somethin !" "Now, on Palm Sunday after noon," Sheila continued deasantlv. "what harm did it do me to drive to a police station with Peter and Judge Mc Cann, make a short statement state-ment and have Judge Mc Cann give me a dollar for my taxi home? I stayed in the taxi," Sheila added, in reminiscent tones, "until it said thir. ty cents, then I gave him a ten-cent tip, jumped into the subway, and maae fifty-five cents on the judge!" "It makes me nervous to have ye talk about thim Mc Canns, Sheila I'd niver know what minute ye'd be in throuble again," her mother said. "Peter and Gertrude Keane are getting married next fall, Ma; that's all the trouble amounted to there." "Yes, an what about the other, poor feller?" "You mean Frank?" Sheila asked dreamily. The name sounded like music on her Hps. "I don't know" she admitted slowly. "Whin did ye see him?" the mother moth-er demanded suspiciously. J'Mother, I give you my word I haven't seen him since that Palm Sunday nearly three weeks ago." "Sheila Carscadden," Angela said instantly, when they were alone, "you had a wire this morning." "I know it. But Ma only asked about seeing him." "AH right" Angela said, invdis-pleasure, invdis-pleasure, "if you want to lie." "I didn't lie!" "You practically did," Angela persisted. per-sisted. Sheila's expression grew suddenly disarming and young. "Listen, Angie. I was knocked completely in a heap when I got it I" she interrupted herself. ! "How'd you know it was from Frank Mc Cann?" she demanded. "I didn't read it if that's what you mean," Angela answered. "But the way you've been acting since it came" she explained eloquently. "I know" Sheila murmured, looking away. "You've been talking character for weeks now," the younger sister pursued. "You've been horribly quiet we've all seen it You've jumped whenever anyone spoke to you, and you've gone off into sort of dreamy states" "I know," Sheila admitted again, still staring into space with tranced "God forbid!" Mrs. Carscaddcn'i voice said fervently. "I really am. Ma." "There's worse things than death, if the truth were known." the older woman observed solemnly. "Sheilal" Angela called sharply. "Mr. Mc Cann really is here!" "What!" they could hear Sheila gasp in a sharp whisper. She came to the door of the sun porch; she saw him, tall and dark and smiling. well, really, Angela." she said, in the last stage of horror and exasperation exas-peration "Really!" "Well, what else could I do?" Angela retorted, aggrieved. "I don't know what you'll think-1 never dreamed I wish I could remember re-member what I said how are you?" Sheila said, look in? so lovelv in her confusion and pleasure and anger an-ger that Frank gave an embarrassed laugh, and stammered on his own account as he greeted her. You didn't say anything. exceDt that your sister was to dance and sing for me, which she hasn't done." Mrs. Carscadden now majestical ly adding herself to the group. Frank addressed himself to her in tones not quite loud enough to drown out her scathing observation to Shei la to the effect that perhaps now, she, Sheila, wouldn't feel It necessary neces-sary to wake the dead when anyone called her a message. 'I did say Sunday in my wire." Frank admitted, "but todav wai such a heavenly day, and I was free" "There was nothing said to me of a telegram," Mrs. Carscadden assured as-sured him. "That's the manners of today," she continued. "They'd niver niv-er tell you annything, the lot of them. My own good mother'd niver have a dispatch an it was few she had, thanks be to God, for ivery last wan of them had death in the flr'rst wor'rd of it but she'd niver have one of them. what the whole lot of us wouldn't run to her like a flock of bir'rds. We kep nothin from her, nor she from us." Kathleen Norris Says: The Woman in His Office BeU Syndicate WNU Featurtt. New Tea Towels Add Gaycty to the Kitchen r, 'The cotiast we have been renting ii in nice quiet part of town, with a vegetable garden, few fruit tree and an old mill that u our children'$ playground." Pop says," Frank contributed cheer fully. "Children mane throuble." Mrs. Carscadden instantly amended it "That one, now." she went on. with a dark glance at Sheila, "she'd drag j the whole family into it like a dog j araggin' a table-cloth!" "Mamma, you don't believe that" Sheila protested. "It's up in flyin machines, off in cars, onto roofs she'll leap into annything!" an-nything!" pursued the mother. "Sheila will," Frank said simply, looking at her. ex- eyes. "And I knew it was Frank!" Angela An-gela concluded triumphantly. The other girl spoke slowly: "I've known all along that it was Frank." "And in his wire Sheila, do you think he likes you?" Angela demanded demand-ed eagerly. "Angela, I don't know. He only says. 'Coming to see you Sunday. " Tomorrow?" "I guess so." "Sheila, whafll you do if Frank Mc Cann is just coming down here to tell you he's going to be married?" mar-ried?" the younger sister asked after aft-er a silence. "I thought of that" 'But after all why should he?" Angela asked sensibly. "It's just one of the things he would do." Sheila mused. "Well." she added, with spirit, "he'll not see me lose my nerve!" But will you feel terribly. Shet ia?" Angela asked timidly, after another an-other nause. Sheila brought her gaze back from far spaces. "Oh, Angela, it will oe very hard, she answered, simply. It was not fifteen minutes iater that Angela called. "Sheila!" , "Woe-hoc!" Sheila returned, from the deptlw of the house. "Mr. Mc Cann is here! Angela $Xu Mc Cann what?" There were hairpins in Sheila's mouth.) 'Mr Mc Cami is here." Yes he is!" Sheila said to a clear-.' clear-.' Brail o.nuse him until I Sheila's Job was not mucn ut ajer Upstic& Dance and job. to be sure, nor was she w oe j v deaf anu give him a needed until May first But it was w ... sne adied. And quite near; it was in the department s;ore , wee on .. rm over under the elevated road, five ; ' with those Mc Cann boyi CHAPTER XVI By KATHLEEN NORRIS T "ROM Flint. Mirhifran. 'Telegram used to mean trouble, I comes the following let- 0D Says." Frank contributed eheer. I I COmeS Uie IOUOWUlg lei- ter. It typifies a situation that isn't entirely unusual, and outlines a problem that is so important, that I give it in full. My husband and I have been married nine years; we are both 33, writes Edna Lee. "We had an income of $1,100 a year when our oldest son was born, in the following five years three other boys followed, my husband s pay rising slowly in that time to about $2,600, on which I man aged to keep a comfortable home, feed my man and my boys, and keep well and out of debt. My babies were born in semi-private rooms at the local hospital; I have never had regular household help, but Ed'i mother lived with us until her second sec-ond marriage, four years ago. "Two years ago Ed got a better job;, he has risen steadily in these busy times and now is getting a little more than five thousand a year. The cottage we had been renting is in a nice quiet part of town, with a vegetable garden, a few fruit trees and sheds and an old windmill that are the children's playground. I began be-gan to make payments on it more than a year ago, and within a few months we will own it outright "My problem is this: All these years Ed has been a quiet devoted husband. He said from the beginning begin-ning that he wanted only sons, and I felt I was fortunate that our chil dren were boys, but when David was born two years ago Ed expressed great disappointment and has never been as fond of the child as he is of the others. About a year ago a very attractive girl, now 21, became his stenographer, and took it upon herself to call upon me and tell me that she and Ed were devoted to each other, but that I might put my mind at rest as there was 'nothing wrong' going on. 'When I taxed Ed with this he laughed and said that she was just romancing, but later he talked to me of her as if he was glad to dwell on the subject I could see that she fascinated him and I immediately suspected why he was so often obliged to stay late at the office. Mother Busy at Home. "That truly didn't annoy me. had a beautiful baby to play with. three splendid little boys to train and love, and my time was more than full. From David's six o'clock wail to seven-o'clock goodnight kisses and prayers 13 hours later I never have one moment's peace, and I love it My housework never gets monotonous because I am continually con-tinually trying new systems and making small changes, perhaps putting put-ting the boys' supper table in another an-other corner, or trying out on them clothes that don't show dirt and don't have to be ironed. I am a good cook, and Ed's main complaint is that he is putting on weight "But nothing pleases him any more. He won't have even breakfast break-fast in the kitchen. He's 'sick of babble about kids.' He wonders why I don't do my hair differently. I think he often stops afternoons at her house the stenographer's house for sandwiches and a drink, for I smell the liquor on his breath, and his appetite for dinner is not what it was. He wants nothing but steaks and chops, and calls noodles or macaroni wop food.' and won't eat them. I give him one mammoth cup of coffee every morning, as I have never wanted more than halt a cup; he frets over limitation. "What Fm writing about however to this: There is to be a company linner and dance in about three CHAPTER XVII "Angela," Mrs. Carscadden said instantly, interpreting a look from Sheila, like the good mother she was, "will ye step into the back room there wit' me, dear'r, whilst I'd pin up the litue cur'rtains?" "Let me help!" Frank offered. "I wud, indade, Mr. Mc Cann, but 'twill only take us the second of a second! An' how's yure good mamma?" Mrs. Carscadden asked politely, in retreat She s fine, thank you. She was perfectly delighted," Frank said. "with Angela's letter about the new house." "Do we love it!" Sheila claimed. "We'll be back," her mother said, departing with Angela. Frank and Sheila were alone. There was a silence. une thing l came to tell you was," Frank began, "that Berna dette sailed for Italy last night" "Oh?" "She and her brother have been planning it for years, and our plans," Frank hesitated, "sort of knocked it in the head. They were delighted to go. She was laughing honestly. I went down to the boat and she was I've never seen Dette so gay. She said to me. This is more fun than our engagement par ty, Frank!' " "She didn't" "Yes, she did. I think she felt relieved," Frank persisted. "But it wouldn't have mattered. he said, after a silence. "It wouldn't it couldn't have mattered how she felt because I I couldn't have gone on with it" Sheila said nothing. "I knew it Frank went on, "on Palm Sunday. I knew why Berna dette and I could wait five years to get married. I knew that if you can wait at all there's something wrong. You were smart enough to know that I wasn't." "I?" Sheila asked thickly. "yesyou told me that" She had been sitting on an old kitchen chair with a rodded back; now Frank drew near it the box on which Angela had been sitting, and sat down and laid one hand on her own locked hands, on her knee 'It's that way with me," he said. Sheila raised thick eyelashes, with a little effort and locked at him. "The world's split in two for me," the man said, as she made no effort to reply, but continued to look at him steadily througn me niacK frinee of her lashes. "They're all laughing at me at home; I don't ,9n I want to tell everyone I meet about you. I can't eat; I'm And it isn't only you. Sheila. it's everything. One of the fellows in the office is just married, and I was talking to him yesterday and thinking what a mi'acle it must be AN OLD STORY ' It'i an old, old story, this one about the girl in the office to whom your husband turns for the companionship you can't give him because you're too busy being a good wife and mother. And the answer is still the same. It's always the "other woman" who loses, if you remember re-member that everyone else is on your side, Kathleen Norris lias told other wives to be sweet, dignified and cheerful, and she offers that advice this week to "Edna Lee," whose husband has forgotten for the moment that home is where he belongs. to bo home to your wifi t knnw " SheOa said in the pause, gazing at him with round. fascinated eyes, ue (JO BE COSTLSUED) m in ii ii fi ANIMATED cutler, dishes, glassware, pots and pans bring their infectious gaiety to a new set of tea towels. They offer a mixing bowl parade, a krife, fork and spoon dash, the soup spoon dance, and four more equally equal-ly interesting tea towel designs, with a trio of teaspoons as motif for a matching panholder. Outline embroidery does the set in a jiffy it could even be done in running Ititch. No. Z9505, IS cents, ia a hot iron transfer trans-fer of the eight motifs the kind of transfer trans-fer which may be stamped several timet. 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Something simply seethes within me when I think of it I stay at home cooking, washing, caring for small children all day long, and Dorothy, sweet and fresh, goes out with my husband at night "Ed cuts me to the heart by indi cating that our days of dancing, companionship, sharing of pleasures, are over. But doesn't a department boss hurt himself, too, when his friends learn that it is his stenographer stenogra-pher who is with him? What is the wise thing to do for us all? If I'm wrong tell me so." Husband Needs Prodding. That Is the letter. The answer ought of course, to be sent to Ed. It's about time that some of the Eds of this world found out that the raising rais-ing of a family is, first the most Important lob In the world, for man or woman, and second, that it is one of the hardest Any man whose wife has given him four children, and whose means are not sufficient to give her adequate help with all that she has to do, should be in a continual con-tinual attitude of sympathetic helpfulness help-fulness and tacit apology. Edna, ' who wrote that eloquent letter, is too fine a woman to rail at him, to remind him that other women have leisure and cars and servants and dignity in their lives. She loves ber slavery to the nursery; she brightens bright-ens the drudgery of her days with innovations, experiments, fun. But it is slavery and drudgery just the same. Some day her sons will repay her. Some day four splendid, vital Boy Scouts will be pointed out in ber town, "those are the Lee boys all together there." Some day, when they are all in school, just blissful rest just freedom to walk uptown or lie down with a book for an hour. will be so sweet to ber that she won't regret these years that taught her the miracle of freedom. Meanwhile, since Ed is bent upon destroying the devotion between them, and throwing away his pater nal influence in these baby years when it must be established if it Is to be established at all, my advice to Edna Is just to ignore him for awhile. Let him go his way. If Dorothy can't do better than to pick a married man, father of four small boys, as a beau, she can't be much of a siren. Sometimes the healthiest attitude a wife can take is to burst cut laughing at these affairs, and instead of whimpering "What do you see in her?" ask "What on earth does she see in YOU?" Worrying will accomplish nothing and will only anger Ed, whose con science is prooaoiy couDiea any way. Don't beg for what you want but make him see that you can give turn what be really wants. 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