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Show r , Ask Me O Information on another Weak misery blotted out all other imotiona and ahe turned desperate-- y toward the duty of the minute, award the wrapping and tying of presents, the heaping of bundle , ha fastening of trimmings on the zee that stood in lone cold state in he downstairs drawing room. It waa cold in the drawing room; Jlctoria worked in a sweater; left talf the trimming undone. There na no heart in It today. Chrlst-na- s had ahraya been a wildly fest-- i ve time in the Hard is ty family iven the dreadful first Christmas rhen Qusntin and Vicky and Gwen wd all been ilL It would be no uch holiday tomorrow. It would lever seem Christmas again. "Oh. my Godl" Vicky said, atand-n- g stQl in the middle of the room. Hitting her' hands that were sore ran wiiee and string and tinsel, hat were cold and dirty, tightly ver her ayes. "My God, what shall i f ' dol . Well, and what had to be done towT With the rest of the tree's Nurse must help; it was to do alone in this cold more oran. Victoria went out to the a hit itchen and asked Claus, the old iennan gardener, who was brewing imself some coffee on the laundry tove, to look at the drawing-rooadlators. Company tomorrow. Then upstairs again to find beds esses tade, and the children dressed and bat is Imitating about with their usual Bricks, cray-- n round proarlous activity. , railway trains, and blackboards the it's wre all in evidence. The question , day. stockings arose; when were they s pat) olng to hang the stockings? little "The holes of the nails we had ist year are all here! Susan said scitedly, in interested investigation fd for t the hearth. "Mother,", the gentle twin said, es4 t her knee, "if we hanged them piu, ow might they be filled by sup- f o r rM Chrlst-is-s 711 ."Oh, not darling, because isnt pntil tomorrow!" Gita Is. To The nursery door opened; insinuated herself into the yards tom, closed the door again. "Amahs sick, and Mma said mid come over, she said. Victorias face paled, but there as no one to see. Come in, Gita. Better dose it because Madeleines getting all wr, , W 47 tor her bath aren't you, my reetheart?" She rubbed her face d mtly against Madeleine's little and felt the tears, hot and irtfut In her eyes again and the ony of despair in her heart At noon Quentin telephoned, . lie "That you, Vicky? Vic, will you .i.. ik in the pocket of my coat the . live 7 coat-e- nd see if there's a lit-- i black book there? I'll send down r it if you find it Just a minute, Quentin. It was i doctors wife talking; it was no lger only Victoria Hardiity. In moment she was back. Its here, ant Claus to bring it in?" "Weil, but won't that mean that uve no car? C "I den't need it I'm not going A was downtown this morn-g." "Everything all right? A pause. Then Vicky said heavl- your rimming iiette. 00 much C T know." Vic's eyes watered. "That's what makea it so ghastly," What have she said in a whisper. you seen. Mother?" she asked, after pause. Oh, wen, that he liked her, Magda answered somewhat cautiously. And certainly that she was after him! she added with more confidence. Well, shes got him!" Vicky said grimly. Vicky," her mother presently began placatingly, in real uneasiness, you wouldnt break up a home like this Just because Quentin happened to look at another woman?" "What else can a woman do when everything she's ever loved and trusted" Vicky stopped abruptly, choked by the tears that rose in her throat "After all. one has some pride! she added, in a lower tone. "Oh, it's all so horrible," she said bitterly, half aloud. Its aU such a nightmare!" "She'd marry him, like a shot She'd get a diMagda predicted. vorce and a big settlement from Spencer Morrison, and then she'd marry Quentin." "She can, Vicky said, trembling. "She knows Quentin la going to be the biggest of them all," Magda went on. How old is he, Vic?" "Forty-fiv- e nearly forty-five.- " "Ah, well," Magda said, thats the time they get them! Victoria did not question fills cryptic comment; she was not listening. Its like a death. Vicky said. It's worse than a death! . "Oh, Lord. no. it isnt Vic. It happens all the time." But it never seemed as if it would happen to me. Vicky fell into brooding thought "It ends everything everything that I ever built into my life, she said. And fluf-hea- I LI if "But Mind You. Im Not Advising You." perhaps I'm wrong. Perhaps men like the sort of women who go right on in marriage and have their own affairs! Perhaps a home and children and a woman who loves him aren't enough. Oh, I wouldnt say that! Magda too tired. I'll be said soothingly- - But something in one early. her completely false tone made Vicky put down the telephone, Vicky laugh suddenly. moved But you think that dont you. god up, and somehow lndly toward her bedf In another Mother? she asked, looking up, her in a haggard cheeks suddenly Ucarlet oment she was flung upon "Well, yes and no," Magda said, isslon of tears. To have to end I think most men would I this to have to end the happy pondering. and a a show-of- f ars when she had felt so sure like a mother-wif- e at she and the children were wife," she formulated it slowly. They love home first and to find tough to have next Christmas day iwn'on a nursery to which Daddy a big steak ready, and a fire, and kids all washed and fresh and ready as a stranger . . . to be shushed off to bed, and some-imto love them in a quiet sort of "Whats tha matter, Vicky?" agda asked, late in the afternoon, way. And then they like another sen Vicky, from sheer inability to woman to flatter them, and meet i anything more was lying idle them places, and be admired." i the couch near the fire in the this, a faint Vicky considered scowl between her heavy brows. istalrs sitting room. Matter?" Vicky responded "And what would a man think of ifhtly- - "Too much Christmas!" a wife who felt that way? Oh, well, you can't go by that Yes. but it Isnt that," she said, You were crying Vicky!" Magda assured her hastily-"No- , ter a pause. you can't go by anything, is morning. Whats the matter?" d Vicky lifelessly agreed. Vicky turned raised eyebrows In the old days, you see. it was her in innocent surprise; Magda presently tike, and looked at the fire, biting harder for em! observed, as if thinking aloud. " ;r lipu Harder for wives?" "What is It? persisted Magda. "No, harder (or the other worn- "It's nothing really." A silence.' The older woman Cm "How dyou mean harder?" rugged. , "Well, before there was so much "All right, Magda said .then, "I guess so. Well, dont get . it 5 a -- n uro- an-- . - to-ir- 1 divorce. Magda offered simply, woman had to be a man'a mistresa then, and that waan't so good. Other women wouldn't speak to her. and the man himself got pretty sick of it after a while. Then he came vorced. Their eyee met fully; both worn-- i back to his wife. If she was a spineless fool, suplooked back at the fire. Feel that way about it?" Magda plied Vicky. She didn't have much choice. Id mildly. Victoria- looked up Thats the way things were. dckly. That isn't the way things are "You know why?" she demanded now! Women have changed all that, surprise, at least God knows it's not fair, "I suppose so," Magda said and .uncomfortably. She even now, that men can do what rked her head in the general di- they do, and get away with it! But ction of the Morrison house. at least a woman doesnt have to "Dont taka it so seriously, Vic! make a doormat of herself!" In the old days she forgave him, ir mother urged, after a silence which ahe had obviously been and in a few weeks he forgot all istlng about for something to say. about it" Magda said. I haven't any doubt he did.' "Seriously!" Vicky blew her nose, But now his wife gets a divorce, toed her' ayes, spoke in a calmer id quite determined voice. "Im and then he has to marry the other it going to make any fuss," she woman, and shes Mrs. Joe Jones, ild. "But if that's what Quentin or whatever it is, and she's out. ants, I wont stand in his way. Not always, Vicky said. The "Oh, but you can't ever be sure, ufrntin doesn't seem to me like a man is apt to find that he didn' an who'd go very far in anything want her quite as much as he ka that Look at the lovely way thought he did. Oh, the man usually is stung, I is with the children," Magda I know one then, Magda agreed. rgued. .fa nothing. Vicky began deliberate, in a thick voice that cleared . she went on its only that 1 Ink Quentin and I are going to be "Its i only. - . 1 fellow in New York terribly nice chap, she further expanded it who's paying three alimonies. It keeps him broke, poor kid. He wants to marry a dear friend of mine. Pearl Ashburnley Victoria was not listening. Quentin may wreck my life, she said. But I wonder how he'll feel when he discovers that he's wrecked his own, lost his children, She made himself ridiculous paused. As far as the children go, if man is successful and makes money, Magda said, they pretty soon find good reasons for getting back to him. He takes one to Europe, or he gives another a car they don't take sides. You never resented anything I did, poor kid! Yes, but that was my mother! I know. But I was the one who got out I threw Keith Herrendeen over. You know. Vic, it's an awful mistake to bring children into a quarrel, because they don't understand and it Just scares them." "I certainly wouldn't bring them into this! Victoria protested almost indignantly. "WeU, I didnt suppose you would. All you tell em is that Daddy is going to be away for a while, and that you feel happy about it "Oh, my God, Victoria prayed, in an agonized whisper, as the full sense of her own helplessness and of the desperate nature of the situation strengthened in her heart Daddy going to be away for a while no Quentin to come into her room from the dressing room in the early morning, when spring 'light was widening over the wet garden, and a wood fire was snapping! No tired doctor for whom to call at the office so proudly, so lovingly, in the late afternoons, and drive home to warmth and fire and heartening dinner. No picnic on the scimitar shore of Half Moon Bay, with Quentin's big figure recumbent and asleep on the sand, and small forms, barelegged to the hip, digging and running in the level warm rush of waves! Feel happy about it! she echoed bitterly- - And in despair she added: '1 shall never feel happy again! There's nothing I can do. Whatever I do is wrong! "People get over divorce," Magda siad. I never wilL" "Funny thing, Magda mused, as her daughter's bitter laugh died away into silence and the room was still. If a woman I mean the wife, now could only keep her mouth shut and wait, she'd win out every time." "You mean kiss a man, and be kind to him, and keep his house comfortable, and let him go off to the other woman whenever he likes?" Victoria asked, in a proud, quick voice. "Yep. About that. You mean knowing that he was unfaithful, knowing that he despised her and wanted to get away from her, knowing that another woman was reveling in his compliments and presents in the love that belonged to her, to keep it up for The indignant summary weeks halted; Victoria, her cheeks scarlet, was looking a challenge at her mother. Weeks! Magda echoed. Months, anyway. Years, maybe. Years! Virky echoed. And with a brief and mirthless laugh she plunged her head into her hands and rumpled her hair. You make me laugh. she muttered scornfully-Yosee, she wants something that you've got. Magda offered ... mildly. Well, she can have it!" So that it's a sort of compliment, in a way. You have to look at it like that, Vic. You've got to well, lace the facts. Quentin is a ter ribly attractive fellow. Women like him, and he's always going to be around them that's part of being a doctor. Don't be a fool about it and run your head into the sand like a glrrffe or whatever it is. 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I "Oh, men dont care whether you encourage them or not ao long as am unacquainted with the art of Storing Brown Sugar. B r o w n you don't cry and fuss, Magda flattery. will not become lumpy if sugar rilievo. Arto relief; (It.) High with her observed, irritating power in an airtight jar. stored in which stand figures of making a point while not try- sculpture ing to do anything of the sort The out from plain surface. Meat Pinwheeta. Biscuit dough, Humble de coeur. (F.) Lowly minute a man leaves you, what you meat chopped with onion, think doesnt matter to him any in heart. Tuum est. (L.) It is your own. carrot and parsley. Spiced toma more. They can walk right out on left-ov- - . er things. Vie. Women cant quite. If you make all this easy for Quentin, he'll think youre a good little sport but he wont care whether you do it by divorce or by Just being decent Stupefied by this philosophy, and by the blankness and darkness of her thoughts, Victoria was stil staring at her niother dully, her brow knitted, when Anna came in to announce a caller. Magda had time only for one more word: I've always thought and I've been thinking it especially lately," she said, "that of all the girls I ever knew you were the one to try the long way I mean stick to your guns, and not let what anyone does make you anything but what you are. But mind you. I'm not advising you. You were smarten when you were bom than I'll ever be. Vicky dragged her eyes, eyes into whose mutinous light a new look suddenly had come, from her mother's face to the maid's face. But her thoughts were still upon what Magda had said, and she had to have the message repeated. Did you say someone was here? Mrs. Morrison, madam. She says she Just wants to say Merry Christmas! Vicky's color, under the glow of the fire, faded a little. She turned toward her mother. Magda shrugged. Say youre not at home, Magda said, in an undertone. But an odd determine.' light had come into Vicky's eyes. am. after a hesitant moment she told Anna simply to ask Mrs. Moriison to come upstairs. A few seconds later Serena came in. (TO BE G-M- to become invites an boys and girts SECRET OPERATORS toes. They passwords, and spsclsl Ope Mdrin Putrid T-. -- : arsK-ai- crafli-d-pb. tht to pro Itahed POM NOT PAY. CRI Purrii b called is to iaaeitisetc a nritcrioss jewel miobefy et Harbor-Ti-e. the wealthy Tucker family estate. Purrii plane to plant two of hia youn Secret Operators, lean end aa iiw.oa the piece alecs end nephew, ao they can hast far dues ? LETS BACK AND GIVE N SHACK THE HE LEAVES without arouiiog I 1 THESE SHEARS I PICKED UP IN THERE HAVE FUNNY MARKS ON THEM, LAURA E LOOKS UKE SOME KINO OF SHINY METAL ON THE BLADES.! 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T MELVIN PURVIS Ideal Weight Governed by Body Build; Not by Scale Correct 'Weight Charts A persons ideal weight is governed by the Individual body build and tha skeletal structure not the "correct weight chart on tha scale at the corner, according to three doctors reporting in the Journal Lancet, Minneapolis medical publication. The ever present "correct weight charts," the doctors said, are mostly guesswork and fail to consider "individual variations in weight within a normal range or variations which may be due to different body structure." The scientists are Dr. Helen B. Pryor, San Franctao; Dr. Robert O. Moody, professor emeritus of anatomy in tha University of California, and Dr. Charles E. Shepard, director of men students' health service at Stanford university, reports tha United Press. A child, tha doctors say, may be considerably underweight according to the "average" standard and yet be perfectly healthy and appear thin imply because ha baa inherited a slender skeleton. Under their system for determining correct weight, he will be "normal On tha other hand, a ttjickboned person carries more soft tissues and a heavy musculature that might Various Subjects 1. How much does it cost the United States to turn out each piece of paper money? 2. What are the dimensions of Big Ben on the House of Parliament, London? 3. What is the average pay of tin would presumably wait for me, and bear everything, and then forget it as if it had never been? But you're not that sort," Magda reminded her. "I should hope Im not!" Victoria exclaimed, again with an air of scoring in the argument But strangely enough, against this mother of hers who bad known so many worthless men in so many discreditable ways, and who so rarely argued, or indeed said anything considerable at all, she could not seem to score today. Vic "You don't think. Mother, asked quietly, that any woman who had borne a man children, spent years of care and love on his own child, nursed him when he was ill, worried over his bills and his diet for seven years you don't think that that woman can calmly put .up with hia setting up a a mistress, and shaming her and wronging her. and wronging his own children, too? And then when he's tired, Victoria rushed on, warming to her subject and cranes home calmly, she is to forgive him, and make a fuss over him again! WeU, perhaps there are women who could do it, but Im not one of them! "No, I didnt say that there were women who could do it, Magda observed mildly, in the pause, as Vicky sat back defiantly and sipped her tea, bridling, breathing hard, I Just faintly shaking her head. said that if a woman could do it she always won out "Won the other woman's leavings, you mean! WeU, in a way, I suppose. And as I say, Vicky, it may go on for years. Three years, four years but then the break comes. 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