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Show Household Question? your rtant aiui you 1th When Food Is Scorehed. Place the pan containing the scorched food into a large pan of water and the food will lose its burned flavor. Do ney. con. roud e Kathleen Norris By Kathleen Norris and rc so WMU Sorvleo, To Clean Varnished Floor- Clean off well with steel wool and benzine and, when thoroughly wiU v to tht SYNOPSIS Karrcndccn, a vivacious UtOa had bacn too young to feel the that cama when bar father, Keith loot hla fortune. A gentle, soul, ha h now amployad aa aa otiaeure chamiat in San Francieeo, at a meager aalarjr. Hla wlfo, Hasda, aaanat adjust hcraalf to the change. Sha ti a beautiful woman, fond of pleasure and a magnet for men'a attention. Magda and Victoria have been down at a aununar resort and Keith Joins them for the week-enMagda leaves for a party, excusing herself for be-- t a "runaway." Tha Herrendaens to their small San Francisco Keith does not approve of mad social Ilia and they Magda receives Bowers a wealthy man from Argentina sha had met less than a week Manners anivei a few hours r. Magda takes Victoria to Nevada to a woman Mend who has a daughter wd Catherine. There she tells her ti going to get a divorce. Victoria I'M in boarding school with her Catherine. Magda marries Man-an- d they wend two years in Argen Victoria baa studied in Europe at eighteen aha visits her mother I Ferdy rents a beautiful home, is unhappy over FWrdy'a to other women. n When her mother and to South America, Victoria to go with them because of attentions to her. returns and tells Vic she and have separated. Meanwhile Keith has mmarfied. Victoria ia now a Magda baa fallen In love Lud us Farmer, a married artist aha and Vie prepare for a trip Fetgy takes a suite in hotel. The night before Magda Vie are to sail, Magda slopes with a Fanner. While nursing the of Dr. and Mrs. Keats, Vie meets Hardisty, a brilliant Sr Qusntin much sought after by woman, who is a widower with a crippled daughe at the Keats home, ter. Jn a ha Msecs Vie. Several days later ha her with other guests to spend a at Ms cabin. Vie is enchanted :abn. Nest morning she and go hiking and return ravenous. I party is disrupted Sunday afternoon bp me arrival of Marian Pool, a Vic la Jealous of Mrs. and a few days later tells Mrs. die is going to Honolulu. In Ms city. Quentin questions Vie about leav-H- e They proposes to bar. M Jeot ell d hi Ed uo d g y not ishiu t,h iid y. Siam, enfc R est, 1 Foe. ! city a that ia ot lut Fun abral, drink-attentioVie-hi- step-retur- ted total i hifk ehU-dn- an tpoft phyai-SbA- ailini ouah tete-a-tet- th the Ids dt-in- . ndsb byi t ton ia ti mis i son CHAPTER V Contiaaed bleti "I think youd better try 38,000 charge of her waiting suitcase and her somewhat silent frightened self. There had been a hospital then; bright, clean rooms, flat clean beds, every ono telling her tost she was behaving splendidly, everyone sure of it except herself. And after a while the realness of all these things, and the city, and Gwen, and the big house and even Quentin had all disappeared into a hot, hurtful fog, and still later, ashamed and bewildered and apologetic, Vic had gratefully slipped sway into nothing Just nothing ust blackness and oblivion and relief from the task that was too hard. Then there had been Kenty, and Vic had lain staring at him thoughtfully, thinking not of him but tit her mother. "My mother she was so beautiful and young; she must have been so frightened, and she went through all that for mel After the long struggle she had said to Quentin: 1 dont want another baby. This ones darling; I want him. But never another I" But the unexpected ecstasy of having one child, after all, had made the possibility of having another seem nothing less than a miracle. Susanna Hardisty had swiftly followed her brother, and on Susans second birthday, the crowded Hardisty nursery bad been enriched by the arrival of Bichard and Robert together. Even the mother of what she sometimes described as the TJght Infantry had been, temporarily left breathless and startled by tills promptitude. Vic lived now in a world of small beds, small stamping footsteps, small shrill voices. Kenty and Sue, Dick and Bobs had filled her life to overflowing; she adored them even while she toiled herself into a dally state of exhaustion for their sake. Quentin meanwhile was busily building up for himself the most Important surgical practice in the 7 Ger- few seconds Victoria Then , really thought she had said - many." For a rarely went to dinner parties. Sometimes after their late dinner at hone they would slip downtown for some music, for toe last acts of a play or the final run of a good film. But almost al- - it aha knew that she had said nothing audible, but that she was looking at him with her throat dry, and her ; heart beating hard, and all her senses in wild confusion. "If a nun wanted you he could get you, she heard him saying. If a man wanted ; you he could get you. "I say yes, of course, she said steadily, y. "Good! he said. 'Til come out .to dinner tonight and we'll tell Vi and' Johnny. Good-by- , Kate, give ?ma a kiss thats the Rirll No, this the way out (is !, Victoria left him standing there, - In his white coat with the little in-atrument still in his big hand, f . She was quiet that evening; quiet .during the days that followed. (There were but few between the I odd, sudden talk in Quentins office "and the hour when they two were married. Only Catherine and the . Keatses witnessed the very simple Victoria, with a smart coat and a small hat, was Vka a serious child, obeying, docile, 'seemingly bewildered. She had ar-- " rested Quentin with a small hand on his arm, when they went into toe Mother! She Bald. clergymans study; had spoken in ways they were at home in the eveQuick fear and nervousness: . Quentin glad to smoke his arent ning, "Quentin youra sure, to go early to bed; Vie happl-lepipe, ,you? when she was within reach of i i The man looked down at her with any call from the nursery. Other hie wide smile. women laughed at her, perhaps pitaren't youT ' "Why, she said ied her a little. She never pitied "Yea. Yes, I am, herself; she was supremely content staunchly. toe and when We like each other, she told doctor Afterward, , Violet had kissed her, and she and him on a certain Sunday morning Quentin were down beside toe when they had been six years man parked car, she had another mo- - and wife, and when an unusual lull in domestic and professional interment of irresolution. ; "Are we going to Mill Valley?" ruptions had by chance afforded "Well, you knew that, Quentin them a lazy hour together. Victoria looked enviously at the "Yes, I know.. Victoria got into comfortable peninsula homes they the car. "Well be back Monday, were passing, for by this time the Vi, she said, through the opened day had somehow rushed about to window. The Keatses waved; Quen- one oclock, and Quentin was drivtin started the engine; they ing her and the three older children down to Menlo Park. There was moving. The Hardisty house on Washing- skull fracture to be diagnosed at the s ton street overlooked the Presidio hospital, and after that the would go to lunch with the wall, and the long lines of pines fcuM the military reservation, and Gannetts. Mrs. Gannett whose own (ha shoulders of the hill ranges that doctor husband had summoned descended on either side of toe Quentin to this emergency case, hsd Golden Gate. There was plenty of hospitably Insisted upon the lunch. fog out here on the summer morn- It neednt be until two oclock; she ings, and Victoria's back garden had beds upon which the small fry was often dripping with milky mist. could take their naps; please, please, plesse come; they never ssw the Hardlstys any more! CHAPTER VI They were at the hospital. Vic In the beginning of her marriage and the children walked about on he had said that she hoped to be the grass while Quentin was inside, busy; idleness was what jeopardised Then he came down again, and Dr. o many women's happiness. If her Gannett came down, and the were to follow the Gannett duties and responsibilities in connection with Quentin and Gwen and car. tha house were not sufficient to Their way wound up into the hills keep her occupied, then, she threat- near Wood side; they were presently ened, she would positively take on being welcomed by Mrs. Gannett on some work for the blind, or for a porch; everything went just as such days always went, doctor talk, : the city's orphanage. But the blind and toe orphanage nursery talk, spring Sunday talk. had had no opportunity to expert Vic .was alternately proud of her anca her kindly charity. For from children and anxiously exasperated tha Sunday night when she and about them; a nurse walked them away with little Betsey Gannett; Quentin had ended their thirty-hou-r honeymoon with a sleepy, slow trip and there was lunch, a delicious to the city, and had found tempo- company lunch with chicken and rary quarters in a large hotel, there asparagus and beaten biscuit and had seemed to be no moment in strawberries, and several nice which Vic, to use her own words, neighbors to share it. Then all tne had had time to sit down for five men went to play golf on tha club minutes to ask herself whether or links a hundred yards away, and not she was hsppy, whether or not soma of the women played contract he was glad that she had married Victoria played neither, and she and her hostess sat talking together. as she had. Vic, you mean youra that way So the first year had flown, and at tha end of it Vic had awakened again! "September. I rather hoped youd Qusntin in tha early dawn of spring morning, and bad given him not guess. - res id or ire ife ar rd st Har-dlsty- Har-dist- . Guess! A child in arms would How old, in heaven's name, are the twins? Are they a year old yet? 'A year! Weve just had our second birthday celebration. "Well, honestly, Mabel Gannett said, "I think its dreadful! Going in for a perfectly enormous family these days! With Quentin as stunning as he is, and all the women mad about him" Oh, that! Vicky said indifferently, as tha other woman paused. And then. Just before toe Hardlstys went home at five, the odd thing happened. Victoria had led her troop upstairs for last wiping of small faces and buttoning of small coats; these operations well under way, she had gathered Susan under one arm, Susans brief legs dangling from her hip, and preceded the others downstairs, to reassure the waiting Quentin as to everybody's being just about ready, There was a wide lower hall in toe Gannetts house; a hall now filled with soft light, and empty except for Quentin; the cheerful voices tit the hosts, saying farewells, eould be beard through the open porch doorway. Victoria had reached toe landing and was about to call to Quentin, obviously and patiently awaiting his family, when another person came into the hall. She came from tha direction of Am dining rooms; a slender, graceful woman almost a girl, though the voice was a womans. It was a voice low with reproach and pain now, and as she spoke she put her hand on Quentin's arm. Victoria, halted on toe landing, had an odd feeling of amusement, a surprising feeling that was something like fear, as she watched. Quentin, the woman said clearly, but in a low tone, "how can you be so horribly unkind to me? Victoria saw Quentin look down at her from his big height; saw the d smile in his eyes. 'Am I horribly unkind to you? he asked mildly. "Youre killing mel the woman answered passionately, with a little choke in her voice. Oh. I wouldnt say that, Joseph-inQuentin said. "You hate me, I know that! Josephine said. "But I cant help it I have to see you we're going Friday. Yes, he settled it I didnt I think he's crazy. But were going. And I have to see you before we gol Will you lunch with me on know. talking to you in the hall, I got tha balcony scene. "Caught with the goods, eh? Quentin asked. Victoria laughed in relief Poor little Jo, the man said, after a peaceful silence. She's aimless, she's not very happy with McGrew he has nothing but money, apparently. She'll get out, some day; shell quit him cold. She to me wanted to say good-b- y theyre going to Biarritz, they have place there and she had to tell me that it was an over, and we would always be friends and all that! What was aU over? "Well, exactly. Nothing! He laughed heartily, engineering toe car through the complicated turnings of Daly City, and Victoria was silent for a while. Victoria laughed, her fears all laid to rest The five children were uproarious in the nursery at supper time; their long sleeps in the car coming home had refreshed them, and they were full of life and mischief The nursery was full of noises and thumps; the children's laughter ringing high above every other sound. Mollie brought Dicky to his father. There's one thatll take all the loving you want to give him, she said, and Quentin sat holding the quieter twin, loving the serious exploratory glance that Dicky occasionally sent over his shoulder, as one who would be sure that these big arms, these big knees were quite safe. 'I thought a girl was always gentler than a boy, Quentin said. I knew youd break that; Kenty! he interrupted himself "You jerk it, and then Susan Jerks it; why don't you wait until you want to use it? "There's nothing gentle about Susan, Vicky said, toe broken cord already mended. Bobs, the other twin, having finished his entire dinner with scrupulous attention and thoroughness, now came to climb up beside Dicky. Gwen was animatedly demanding if Daddy would like to see her new dress for dancing school. "Somehow I never thought rd hear you talking about dancing school, Gwen, Quentin said, his arms full of nightgowned small boys, but his forehead held up for Gwens suddenly affectionate kiss. Oh, but you know I limp, Daddy? the little girl, reminded him animatedly. "I kin limp! Susan shouted with the usual accent on toe personal And she gave an exagpronoun. gerated imitation of a cripples gait She to Gwen's immense delight walks just as if it hurt her. Mother! exclaimed Gwen. After a while, Quentin, with toe sureness of long practice, slid the sleeping twins into cribs and left Victoria reading. Victoria called after him: "When youve made your telephone calls, Quentin, see if you can get Dora, and find out how Dorothy is, and remind the Findleysons that theyre coming to supper. Tell Billy not to dress, and say to Sally that of course if her fathers with her we want him, too! "And shake the hall rug and see if there's any mail, the doctor added. But he was grinning as he went downstairs. "Red-hande- good-nature- e, Wednesday? Operating on old Fuller in Los Angeles. I go down Tuesday night' You.. know, I don't believe you, toe woman said with Quentin, shrewd look. But instantly her manner changed and softened. Oh, don't be unkind to me be kind to me just this once!" she faltered, with unmistakable signs of tears. Victoria, rooted to the landing saw from Quentin's face that he was embarrassed, but he gave no sign of nervousness; he was completely master of the situation. I dont know what you can have to say to me, my dear, he said, in toe kindly masculine look and tone and manner that Victoria tost all women loved. Listen, youre getting yourself an wrought up, he added. And he put a hand on her Come into the library shoulder. with, me a minute, he suggested. They left the ball together. When they were gone Victoria descended the remaining stairs and began her thanks and farewells. Almost immediately the other children, Betsey, the nurse were with her, and within five minutes of her having first glimpsed that tableau in the lower hall she and Quentin were on their way- home. But it had left its mark, she had to speak of it, the passionate young voice, How can you be so horribly unkind to me! was ringing in her ears and coloring the languid scented spring twilight with romance. Quentin who was the pretty girl at the very end the one in lavender linen? Oh, that was Mrs. Billy McGrew. shes a nice Josephine McGrew kid. But nutty! She's affectionate, I gather? Quentin laughed, guiltily, giving his wife a sidewise, shrewd smile. A little. Victoria said nothing, but her heart was lightened again. It was - aU so silly! Bowd you know that?" Quentin presently asked, chuckling. 1 was on the stairs when she was diy, 00 Topping for Sundaes Extracted honeys mate excellent toppings for ice cream sundaes. d. When Sealing Fish. A dull knife will be found best when scaling fish. 0 0 rich Swedish Eggs. Make a white sauce with milk butter, very little flour or cornflour, mustard, alt and finely chopped parsley. 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WlfU Service, George V.'s Motto At a recent youth movement luncheon in London recently it was revealed that the guiding motto in the late King Georges life was: "The secret of life is not to do what one likes to do, but to try to like what one has to do. ICHEWrLONGlBimNAVJlOBACCOK OUR qj TOUm-lO- UR STORES Our community indudes the form homes surrounding the town. The town stoics arc them for tha accommodation and to serve die people of oar form homes. The merchants who advertise specials" am who sm sura they can meet all competition in both quality and prices. men-chsn- ti JOYS GLOOMS About an hour later, when a party of six had just harmoniously settled down to Sundays cold supper there was an interruption. It began with a ring at the doorbell, but that was nothing in a doctors household; nor was Metas appearance a moment later. What was unusual was the appearance of the woman who followed Meta; the sound of her voice. For a moment Vic didn't know the voice at all, or the little tinkle of high laughter, or the person in d hat and frilly silk the coat frilly blouse, frilly sweeping skirts who stood there. Then the whole world turned upside down and she got to her feet and tried to speak, but couldnt hear her own voice and tried again with better hick. lace-eJge- "Mother!" she said. My dear, the proverbial bad penny!" Mrs. Herrendeen laughed, coming in to sit down at the chair Quentin provided, and looking about the circle gayly. Well, you're havshe said. She was ing a party! introduced, all the voices spoke together cordially. (TO BE CONTINUED) Eye Sensitivity to Green and Blue Light Is Increased in Noisy Places . People see better In noisy places especially if the colors they seeing em blue or green, it has been discovered by Pro! S. V. Krav-koaccording' to his recent report to toe Russian Academy of Science! in v, at Moscow. 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