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Show two new (00ZtT weu M a .2Es ,re ft If 55;purpose fE ( bfg the The design walk be trsced on , or thin lumber. keyhole saw I, F CHAPTER X Continued A coal ID But tho tabloid paper had had Picture of Sheila and Peter on the front page; Sheila looked perfectly wild in her tousled clothes, and Peter like the scared, lanky boy he was. And under this the caption had been, "Love Birds Fly Home. Bandits, Not Wedlock, Claim. Asaert Telegrams a Hoax." Story on Page Twelve" the line under tho picture had been. And fortunately the story on page twelve bad been absolutely true. Miss Carscadden, a belle of the Bronx, and the dare-dev- il second n son of the Judge, whose college exploits had caused his family and friends so much concern a few years ago, had appeared at a police station early on Monday evening, and had told the following story to Police Sergeant Francis X travel-crumple- d well-know- CBeilley. The tale of bootleggers, abducwhen and to cut them out, tion, escape followed. The young attractive couple, the newspaper continued, fty become whose absence from home since Satarts tot your lawn. h duck urday night had been something of ZT the Kgeep Off Grass" sign are n mystery, denied their marriage, A although official announcement of it Jjtteni Z9085, 15 cent. ifilk" sign is also given, had been made by Miss Carscad-den'- s size, the ever-j- g mother, and by Judge and Mrs. Paul B. Me Cann. giphonnet Kiri Sheila's brother Neely and his gag can are on pattern i is cents. wife, Lizzie, arriving early at the Lj one or both of these Carscadden apartment to discuss General this calamity, had exclaimed and t cutout figures. about the kitchen until i directions, as well ascome suggestions Sheila had felt ready to murder Send order to: them both. tacfa pattern. "What I can't understand Is why you wanted to talk to Peter Me aunt mastha Cann, Shells," Lizzie had lamented, Kansas City. Ms. alK over and over again, in her wondertot each cents pattern u it ing innocent voice. "You knew he el Patten Mo. was going to marry Gertrude Keane it was in tho papers." jOm "Well, he's got scads, for one thing," Neely, who was Z w h ape-Mwti- nf tut-tutt- . slow-witte- JODSEBOLD iWs egg beaten into freshened orange juice and dusted Isutmeg makes a nourishing i A lor convalescents. SOS Iks preparing oranges for a sot, pour boiling water over md let them stand five min-Th-is will make them much us to peel. 0 O hid soak flannels; m. Don't boil them; n. it hardens it shrinks and dry quickly, Wash washing, shake after and before hanging on ata before dfog 'be. Jfa SOS earrots until ten--r put them through the ricer, dnson and beat as one does Nhed potatoes. Even those who cooking be to like carrots cannot rattan thus prepared. ADVISES YOUNG (URLS mini WOMANHOOD Apply the Rnlo have committed to memory; now to life. Edwin the Golden let us Markham. FOLKS OU) Vmiwai a5a W all dlklr w,mM, luri mrisM Dk Mlh WSthUMLii - ttfSiK? . wv gwgg wa fire was sleepily burning In the grate; outside the heavy velvet curtains at tho windows and the rich lace curtains that were crossed inside them the quiet holiday morning had riming over and snow was beginning gently to folL The heaviness and shadow out of doors seemed to make mmt luxurious and handsome only this comfortable sitting-roowith its books and chairs and firelight Did Frank tell ye what Casserly reported?" Judge Me Cann opened the talk by asking w after I got home last night Pop. 1 didnt know that when I was at Carseaddens," Frank said. Thats right too. easterly came faere, said ths Judge in his mild, fatherly way, with a report on the Columbus A venus place." If theyre a bunch of liars," Peter spoke up angrily and suddenly, Thats nothing to me! Why do you take what a bunch of liars says for Gospel? You didnt expect to get the truth out of them, did you?" "Casserly saw the marks of when the kids had jumped out of the back Ubary window," Judge Me p -continued. And ha saw the door where they come into the studio-ha- nd me that paper, Frank." He glanced at a paper which his eldest son picked from the and handed him. Theres an artist, Joseph Bertin, and Ms wife and baby, lives in that studio, he said mildly, scrutinizing the paper. "They've been there a year; the restaurant feller, Tony, knows the both of them welL She was out at church Saturda night, but be was there. "His statement is that a young couple came namin' down his stairs, laughin and covered with snow, and that they got their breath and told Mm the way theyd been thrapped, and with that went on, he knows rot where!" said. He stopped. Everyone looked at Scada of what, Neely? Sheila Peter, who shrugged, tossing his had asked, in a dangerous voice. Dough," Neely had explained, head, and at Sheila. "Thats an a lie, Sheila said artlessly. "Oh. I see. I ran away with firmly. foe Judge said, "Well, well him because Ms father had lots of making a little clicking noise with money? hsd taken tongue and teeth. He laid the paper "Well. Shells," it up, in her plaintive tones, why aside. That ends that he said. else would you? You hardly knew CHAPTER XI him "There you are, Sheila had answered. "Why else would I?" "Peter," his mother began genTime to go, Joe had said tly, had you only come to mo and abruptly, at this point. And the told me, dearl Gertrude would have party had started out, anxious and gladly let you off. You could have been married rightly, with all of us silent, for the Me Cann house. there- -" in said hall Lizzie the had "Joe," Judge Me Cann," Sheila said, in her whining persistent voice, Td you don't believe that Peter and I go with you gladly to the Me Canns ran off to Boston and got married if I could be of any use!" a Justice of the peace!" "No, thanks," Joe had said briefly. by Not if you say you didn't, dear,1 Usually ha liked Lizzie; usually he answered in a troubled tone. a had Mg father Her did. all they Wen, X do say we didn't) I say where Neely bakery business we were taken up to Connecticut wife wonderful worked. She was a somewhere in a truck, and kept to Neely, and aha could be very funthere . . ." ny describing the funerals Of her Well, well," the Judge said, s unts, end the way her Uncle Jim then Til believe you. soothingly, his to change acted when he had he went on. look But here" had wooden leg But today she here a minute. You and Pete here Jarred. summer, didnt you?" I thought maybe, on account of metAtlest Tiller's Beach, on Labor Day, had she Mother Carscadden? And you liked each other very said tenderly. At which Mrs. Carscadden had answered for herself. much?" We did." "Get out, Lizzie, theres a good "He asked you to many him, gerrll he?" runt had withdrawn with tears in didn't We only knew each other teat her eyes, and Joe, Sheila and their one -' Sheila stammered, unmother had gone on their sepa- able dayto move her eyes from those rata way. of her interlocutor. The Me Cann house, when they Only knew each other that one and reached it, looked very large liked each other?" but handsome and formidable, and the day,Wo you have, Sheila said with might the obviously when ball, entrance an effort. "That is, I thought excited and sympathetic Mamie adhave. But we didnt see each might overwhelmed mitted them, quite other again." Mrs. Carscadden with Its magnifi"Why was that? cence. She kept close to Joe, her Peter lost the paper with the great curve of 'Decause ejes exploring with name on it" Sheila managed a my its stained glass the stairway, fleeting glance at Peter; looked window and its palms, the rugs and back. "I didnt know," she said, the curtained arches of the doorthat Peter was rich was a rich ways, the enormous chairs that man's son. I thought he was Just-J- ust flanked the halL like the other boys. Its t rones they srrel" she ob- The artlessness of it made a sudin a whisper. served den onslaught upon her hearers. Pethe Judge Me Cann eeme in with "Well, what if you bad? forward came ter. The older men his throat clearing began, Judge hospitably, with nothing constrained and Mrs. Me Cann said quickly, In his manner or voice, and what What difference would that make, did not accomplish in ths Papa?" naturalhe did, way of Introductions "No difference at aUi Paul Me an set ly and pleasantly, end they Cann said. down And there! where ye both were Then Frank eeme in with his o stupid," be added, feelingly. mother. The gracious, gentle wom- "Why didnt ye come to us and ten en of Sheila's first visit looked older ua ths truth? Sheila comes in here, aha had today; she was pale and been crying. Her Upe aeid "Mrs. "The boy sees her, poor and pitiCarscadden," and Sheila. as she ful, as wo thought she was then,'' no made she greeted them, but tho man continued. "And all Ms lova for her comes back. Theres Atf my boy, Joe," Sheila's moth- love at first sight as we well know, er aeid. Mrs. Me Cann looked at don't ere. Mamma?" him steadily. "Wt do, Paul," agreed Mrs. Me How do you do, Joe? Cam. She sat down and it was to be seen "Wo work it out that hes promthat she chose a low chair close to ised to Gertrude, but be meets Sheitheir plans are laid, and off he Peter, end reached tor the boy's big, It against her la, with Ms true love I the Judge held and hand bony she looked goes concluded the story. "Thats the way breast Every little whilefull of love a with glance at him, looked, he added, placatlngly. it end sorrow end trust end when she Shells laughed, disagreeably. Her at back smile did so Peter would cheeks were still scarlet. her with a boyish sort of reassur"Only that isnt what happened,1 ance end apology in his eyes. said. she Mr. Me Cann," Mrs. Carscadden Sheila," eald Mrs. Me Cann, tala "aH and aid impressively, suppose that Judge Me Cann broke me hearrt for me. saM said this to you and Peter; You I "No, no, no," the judge like each other, youve been thinking and gently, "we mustn t say about each other tar month. Today that Well that We mustnt say to have been Peters wedding of this matter was bottom to the get Well, have it so. Be married day. no here in end straighten it out and Ive ouictly this afternoon, right have a church on Lezington-w- eU celebrate to He stopped and sighed afterward, little party "Ive no doubt M His goodness, the first weddln that God'll make It all clear to us. There were tears in her shining . yes. She wiped them away, and he aeid . Mrs. Me Cann freed a went on, stiff holding Peters from Peter's long trough to find it gently. still patting eyee. her handkerchief and wipe "Then you go off to Pittsburgh. heart-ruFrank, standing on the in turn. Tv brother there; Judge Me Cann looked down on them all rih play-actin- ". 15-- 40 ftmeherona Memory 18 the friend of wit, but gcheroua ally of invention. w. Mar nan af woriA-wmt an. be accepted nrrly aa evidence aa, ,"forter Aad .ftAwldw.. f 'N 27 5 favorable paHia puioa npporta Sul ha aMa phnHiai tfca vebe ef Sje " Jt nadir naotUi Jr toi, Don't rail far dieerdn nIM at d for wereTSSS afluAi ly doubt' asL"w: g, Wyeth Spears Katlilecn Norris katnibn nows may WNU HONEYCOMB SMOCKING BY THE TUCK BASTE TUCKS VS DEEP AND METHOD Mt" APART AS AT A TAKE A STITCH AS SBVKI bad him on the telephone this morning. Peter, my brother, has a Mg foundry there,- and he'll find a Job for Pete. Hed seen the newspaper story and he was so nice about it, wasn't he Papa? And of course, you and Peter not being able to manage on what he'd earn, why, we'd see to that part of it I talked to Peter about this, this morning," she concluded, with a glance at her son's attentive face. "Tell Sheila what you think, dear. Why, I think It's the best way out of it Cert's gone to her off me for life!" Peter said gruffly. Sheila stared at him in blank amazement, moved her gaze to Frank. Her eyes went to every face In the circle in turn. She looked at Mrs. Me Cann, gently persuasive, at the Judge, who was watching her keenly, with a at Peter, flushed and stirred and heroic, and at her own brother, who had been alertly following all the proceedings, without himself taking any part in them. Her mothers face she reached last; tha look of outraged suspicion that the familiar countenance had worn through tha entire morning was slightly softened now. Mrs. Carscadden was not mollified, but she was interested at least in the thought of this unexpected solution. Sheila turned to Frank, who was studying her with Ms odd, grave ha If smile. Frank, so comfortably secure in his own wedding plana' But X dont love Peter I ihe stammered. Mrs. Me Cann interposed in a soothing tone, as if she were speaking to a small refractory child: But Peter loves you very much, Sheila, and he never would permit - half-frow- -- necessary to to sacrifice your son on my account! Suddenly she was shaking with rage such as she had not known since very small, schoolgirl days. She walked out of the room, with her head up, and out of the house. No one attempted to stop her; or, if anyone did, she was too Mind, too deat to know H. Down the brownstone steps, that were being gently powdered with now, she went quickly. Tha cool, pura air of the silent holiday noontime smote her hot cheeks refreshingly. Timid little flakes fell til about her, her footatepe were softened in the thin covering of the now. i At the comer she turned back, looked at tha street She was not being followed, there wee not a human being in sight Instinctively she had turned toward the subway, and home. But on the way she passed, on Lexington Avenue, a shabby, doorway. Almost every obscure activity known to the bueiness world was housed in thla old building; n passport photographer, a staffer of dead animals, a dressmaker whose ambitious sign of Modes had been crossed by bumbler notice, Children's school uniforms st cost" A dancing teacher had the top floor; a mender of broken china was somewhere upstairs. The second flow was given over to Mrs. O'Connors Famous Employment Bureau." And against her particular sign Mrs. O'Connor had tucked cards. Four wanted. Girls, good moneyl and Childs nurse wanted, lovely family right near city. Sheila stood reading these cards, her breast smoldering. They were ail against her, the Me Canns, and Joe, and Ma. Everyone. Even Frank had smiled aa ha handed her over to Peter to Peter, who had departed from Sheilas dreams forever, who was less to her now than that casual elerk frm the office, who had been waiting "Misther Frank," in the Me Canos hallway. "It wouldn't be open on a holiday," Sheila reflected, looking up the dank, uninviting stairway that lurched toward Mrs. OConnors sign-clutter- rs AT BJ THEN CATCH TUCKS TOGETHER MOTHER writes: "I have enjoyed using the embroidery stitches in SEWING Book 2. I find a great deal of pleasure in handwork for the dresses of my little and am particularly interested in smocking. Here is a trick that is useful for making honeycomb smocking in points without a special pattern. The fullness of any dress may be basted into tucks of graduated length, as at A. Even a little fullness in the center front or at the neckline may be smocked in one or two points. Always baste the center front tuck first and then work each way from it. Tha smocking starts at the left and is done with colored thread. Begin at the top of the second tuck. Catch it to the tuck at the Work left with three stitches. from the top down along each tuck as shown. The stitch at B is made by sliding the needle along inside the tuck. ' NOTE: If you like to do handwork you will want a copy of Mrs. five-yesr-o-ld, Spears' Book 2. It contains directions for making 42 embroidery with their authentic stitches names. Also illustrations of fiva processes of mending fabrics; making doll clothes, and gift items. Books are 10 cents each please order by number No. 1, 2, and 4. Each book contains an of curassortment of tains; slip covers; rag rugs; toys; gifts and novelties for bazaars. With your order for four booklets you will receive a FREE set of three Quilt Block patterns of Mrs. Spears Favorite Early American Quilts. Send orders to: MBS. BOTH WYETH SFEASS Drawer II New York Bedford Hffli Enclose 10 will for one book, or 10 eenta for four books and lit of quilt block patterns. Nsma Address Lowly Maggot an Aid to To Flower Breeders maggot in development of more lovely flowers for the gardeners of the world constitutes a little-know-n phase of the science of flower breeding. Often in his work the flower breeder obtains outstanding, single-plant specimens which give promise of becoming sensational, new flower creations. This remarkable plant individual must be from contamination protected by neighbor flowers. So the breeder encloses it, as it grows, in a muslin cage, If the plant is to mature properly and produce seed, however, its flowers must be pollinated, but only with the pollen grains of that plant itself. Scientists call this "aelfing." Pollination by hand of all the cbged plants on a flower breeding plot would be long, tedious work, so Gordon Morrison, Ferry-MorSeed Station hybridist, enlists the aid of fiie maggot. It is the maggot of the objectionable blowfly; moreover. Blowfly maggots in the pupae stage are placed in the flower cage, subsequently maturing into flies. The insects are extremely active and they fly from flower to flower on the caged plant, doing an excellent job of spreading pollen' from one blossom to another. The plant then proceeds io produce its prized crop of seed. Thus the maggots do their part to help make the world more beautiful. Even so, lets hope flower breeders find a way to put them out of existence after they have dime their pollination chore. F TSE of the loathsome tha Famous Employment Bureau." Heres what'll decide it, she aid aloud. "If ita open. Ill try It! And if I don't want to do it, can back out And anyway, Fd have to go hone for my clothes, and probably Ma and Joe'd be home, and theyd not let me go. But if get away fills time, it's to good! She mounted the crazy stairway and laid her hand on the knob d the doorway that indicated OConrora. The knob turned, the door opened, and Sheila found herself alone in a shabby, spacious office, with a kindly looking woman of fifty, whose face Instantly told her that if this was not Mrs. OCon-no- r, at least it might be. I want a Job! Sheila said, go- (cross-pollinatio- n) glass-panele- "Why, bet Peter knows perfectly well what happened!" SEW HCw- 4-- Ruth h EYE cut-t&S- Jl ing in. Lady, lady It Is HOUSICLIANINO time; HI Batter All your furniture, til your woodvofksnd floors an have again that silken soft sad lustrous look tbtj mud a ion. theml Watch the winter film of dirt fawaf Watdk die dean wood (tile or linoirnm) taka on the hutma toft and tiUm htk yon loved a year; tra years, ago. AskforgMwac O-Ce- V. VMbb mom, wax, DusnUr HY AND cuanus anb MOTH SHAY Sinews of Virtu company and good course ere the very sinews of Izaak Walton. Good ' Mrs. O'Connor proved to be an affectionate and encouraging person. Now, Til tell you, dear, shq What did you say aid to Sheila. your name was? Mary Moore." "I'll tell you, Mary. I don't often keep open on holidays, but I've rush order I couldn't do nothing with yesterday, and Ive had to put it into today. Thera's a federation of business clubs meeting at Atlantic City this week, and every place down there is full. You've got reference, dearie, from that knows you, your teacher, the parish priest? T can get It Wen, Mary, take the to Atlantic City you'll get your tare and your lunch money back. - Go to fiie Pendergast Inn. It's not on block back, the boardwalk, it's but if finer than many of the waAmends Was Bit terfront places. Go there and ask Making Mrs. Kearney; shes the house- Out of Line keeper. Shes a lovely woman. Ive sent her help these twenty years. Whitley was having some decIt's only fourteen dollars, Mrs. orating throat done, including the re- law What to O'Connor continued hardily. give up my Wen, I hate ana , papering . ... oi the aining-roo,, Peter said, courageously. worts, tath-rowas wife never "But as Mother says-T- ve wfrmnT way so he left the men on the Fust's Sins predaee seen my uncles foundry' went to business. when owe me six. When Now of the appearyou flowers and vegetables like You have to think were returned he they pay me when you like. ance of filings, Sheila," Mrs. Me dollar . those shown la actaal color just finishing. But there had been Cann persisted gently. The appear- Soma of the girls pay half this week ome miatak- dming-rooon the padkete. photograph another Theres half the next much bow end know of ance evil, you while paper was in the bath-room-, convention going down toon. we hear of thatl Bay the cenvadieat way dining-rooshowed an elegant the And you mean to say, Peter" tileB and purple frees yoar desks display. JUTt and bewildered, ffhetie began was stopped. Peter, at twenty-on"What are you going to do about only a little boy after all, a little demanded the householder season's son. sea The to the getting stop boy who would be delighted I dunno, said the pa perh angto off earlier every year. Ms difficult law studies and be er, scratching his head. I'd will(TO BE CONTINUED) a strange elty and a new Job, She ingly move the bath but it's a laughed suddenly, mirthlessly. plumber'! job. me!" to This seems very funny English Village Arts and sho Mid Crafts Being Reyived "Sheila, dear," Mrs. Me Cann Tha old arts and crafts of "Men said, in remonstrance and distress, to ria England are being revived by you mustnt think were trying cornet you, dear, or to trap you! village Institutea; women are throwing themselves Into tho movement Judge Me Cann and I talked this over all day yesterday, almost all with the greatest zest, and displayto do ing remarkable artistry and skill. night last night Ws want what's fair to you. This seemed to From some of the humblest cottages GRANTING a womans reputation for wise buying, lets trace the us the fairest thing, tha thing you'd com rich embroideries, toys, leathwant to do! Surely surely if you er and basketwork. Pottery Is bemethods by which she has earned it. Where does she find out about and Peter are fond enough of each ing made out of clay found in the the advantages and details of electrical lefrixerationTWhet tells her other to have remembered each oth- back garden. Gloves, muffs, rugs how to keep the whole household dean rugs, floors, bathroom made and fur costa are made from the er all these months, to have tiling and have energy left over for golf end parties? How docs an engagement with each other only furry animals of tha locality. In she learn about new and delirious entrees and desserts that surprise few daye before he was to have the exhibition held in London reand delight her family? Where does she discover thou subtleties was bedroom whole it were then cently there been married, surely of dress and make-u- p that a man appreciates hot never understands? rticie that think furniture, fat which every natural that era should crockery, hewing, this plan would please you both." Why, she reads the advertisements. She is a continent, thought-fi- ll And admit that we were lying!" pig., floorcloth, pictures and even reader of advertisements, because she has found that she can mad by vilcandles and soap-w- as Sheila exclaimed, angrily. believe them and profit thereby. Overlooking the advertisements The lage women and by band. Aw, Sheila, pull yourself togethwould ba depriving herself of data continuously useful la her job musical activltle of and dramatic unsympathetically. er!" joe said, of Purchasing Agent to the Family. vilIn at work "Dear child, wa were only think- tha 5.000 institutes For that matter, watch a wise man buy a car or a suit or an insurand rapidly, are developing Me Cann protest- lage tool ing of you." Mrs. Interest keen a ance policy. Not a bad shopper himself! He reads advertisements, up is then growing ed, in a hurt voles. choral and schools local drama 1 thank you sill Sheila said, in fostivals. in loud, hard voice. "But It Isnt and his father and X never could approve of your going on, after an this, with such a stain on your one. There'd be no Messing in us. It may rot that him, or seem so serious to you now, but the time will come when it would be serious believe me, dear. And the Judge tMnka so, ton The world would think very hardly of you, Sheila. They wouldn't know if you were married or werent married T wouldnt ear what tho world thought! Sheila asserted. No, you wouldnt now. But the time might come when you'd want to many someone else, and then thered always be that Shadow. Judge Me Cann and I wouldnt want and Pater to be responsible Peter wouldnt, either "Why, but Peter knows perfectly Sheila perwell what happened! He knows that sisted, indignantly we were both as innocent as babies through the whole thing! Peter, who appeared to be exquisitely uncomfortable, cleared his to se to long-despis- four-o'clo- to it to Paperhangers . .j m o. I 2? 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