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Show THE TIMES-NEW- NEPIII. UTAH S. MISS LUI U BETT ZONA GALE By s Copyright by O. 4 pie ton WIFE" "MY WEDDED SYNOPSIS. General factotum in the house of her sister Ina, wife of Herbert Deacon. In the small town of Warbleton, Lulu Bett leads a dull, cramped existence, with which slie is constantly at enmity, though apparently , sattutled wRh her lot. Bobby recently graduated youth, Is secretly enamored of Deacon's elder daughter, Diana. The family Is excited over the news of an approaching visit from Deacon's brother Ninian, whom he had not Keen for many years. Unexpectedly, Ninian arrives. Thus he becomes acquainted with Lulu first and understands her position In the house. To Lulu, man of Ninian is a the world, and even the slight Interest which he takes In her is appreciated, because It Is something-neIn her life. At an outing which the family takes, Ninian and Lulu become confidential. He expresses his disapproval of her treatment as a sort of dependent In the Deacon home. Diana and Bobby, in the course of ''soft nothings," discuss the possibility of eloping and "surprising the whole school." Lulu lias awakened to pleasant possibilities concerning Ninian's intentions toward herself. Lai-kin- high-achco- much-travel- IV July. ' When, on a warm evening a fort- Company At length, having noted the details of all the clothes la range, Ina's Isolation palled upon her and she set herself to take Ninian's attention. She therefore talked with him about himself. "Curious you've never married, Nin," she said. "Don't sny It like that," he begged. might yet." Ina laughed enjoyably. "Yes, you might I" she met this. She wants everybody to get mar ried, but she wishes I hadn't," Dwight threw in with exceeding rancor. They developed this theme exhaus tively, Dwight usually speaking in the third person and always with his shoulder turned a bit from his wife. It was inconceivable, the gusto with which they proceeded. Ina had assumed for the purpose an air distrait, casual, attentive to the scene about them. Hut gradually her cheeks began to burn. "She'll cry," Lulu thought In alarm, and said ut random : "Ina, that hat is no pretty ever so much prettier than the old one." But Ina said frostily that she never saw anything the matter with the old owe. "Let us talk," suid Ninian low, to Lulu. "Then they'll simmer down. lie went on, In an undertone, about Lulu hardly nothing in particular. heard what he said, it was so pleasant to have him talking to her in this confidential fashion; and she was pleasantly aware that his manner was open to misinterpretation. In the nick of time the lobster wns served. Dwight Herbert savored his rarebit with a grout show of long wrinkled dimples. lent," "Excellent sauces they make he said, with the frown of an epicure. "A tiny wee bit mor here-excel- Athabasca," he added, and they all laughed and told him that Athabasca was a lake, of course. Of course he meant tabasco, Iua said. Their entertainment and their talk was of his sort, for an hour. Well, now," said Dwight Herbert hen It was finished, "somebody dunce on the table." "Dwightie ! "Got to amuse ourselves somehow. Come, liven up. They'll begin to read the funeral service over us." Why not guy the wedding service?" linked Ninian, In the mention of wedlock there was always something stimulating to. Dwight, something of overwhelming humor. He shouted a derisive endorsement of this proposal. I shouldn't object," said Ninian, Should you. Miss Lulu?" Lulu now burned the slow red of or torture. They were all looking at her. She made an anguished effort to defend herself. "I don't, know it," she said, "so I can't say it." Ninian leaned toward her. "I, Ninian, take thee, Lulu, to be my wedded wife," he pronounced. That's the way it goes I" "Lulu daren't say it P cried Dwight. He laughed so londly that those at the near tables turned. And, from the fastness of her wifehood and motherhood Ina laughed. Really, It was ridiculous to think of Lulu that night later. Lulu descended the stairs 'dressed for her incredlhle trip to the ;clty, she wore the white waist which iBhe had often thonjcht they would '"use" for her If she died. And really, the waist looked as if It hud been planned for the purpose, and Its wide, upstanding plaited luce at throat and way wrist made her neck look thinner, her Ninian laughed, too. "Course she forearm sharp and veined. Her hair don't dare say It" he challenged. ishe had "crimped" and parted In the From within Lulu, that strange Dinner and the play the show, as middle, puffed high it was so that ihair had been worn In Lulu's girlhood. Ninian called it. This show was Lulu, that other Lura who sometimes "Well !" said Ina, when she saw this Peter Pan," chosen by Ninian be fought her battles, suddenly spoke and frankly exnmined It, cause the seats cost the most of those out : coiffure, "I, Lulu, take thee, Ninian, to be head well back, tongue meditatively at any theater. It was almost inde cent to see how Dwight Herbert, the my wedded husband." teasing at her lower lip. "Tou will?" Ninian cried. For travel Lulu was again wearing immortal soul, had warmed and melt "I will," she said, laughing trema-- . 'ina's linen duster the old one. ed at these contacts. By the time that all was over, and they were at lously, to prove that she, too, could Ninian appeared, in a sack coat and his diamond. Ills distinctly con the hotel for supper, such was his Join in, could be as merry as the rest. And I will. There, by Jove, now vex face, its thick, rosy flesh, thick pleasurable excitation that he was mouth and cleft chin gave Lulu once once more playful, teasing, once more have we entertained you, or haven't But now his Ina we?" Niniim laughed and pounded hismore that bold sense of looking not the irrepressible. fist on the table. at him, for then she was shy and was to be won back, made it evident softOh. soy. honestly!" Ina was averted her eye9 but at his photo that she wus not one lightly to over shocked. "I don't think you ought the sat fine a firmness and upon look, as at she could which gaze graph ' to holy things what's the matter, much as she would. She looked up little doubling chin. They discussed the play. Not one Dwightie?" at him openly, fell In step beside him. Dwight Herbert Deacon's eyes were Ws he not taking her to the city? of them had understood the story, staring and his face was scarlet. g :Ina and Dwight themselves were Say, by George," he said, "n civil because she, Lulu, had brought wedding is binding In this state." 'about this party. A civil wedding? Oh, well" Nin "Act as good as you look, Lulie, ian dismissed It. jMrs. Bett called after them. She gave But L" said Dwight, "happen to ,no Instructions to Ina, who was mar be a magistrate." ried and able to shine in her conduct. They looked at one another fool lit seemed. ishly. Dwight sprang up with the Dwight was cross. On the way to idea of inquiring some the station he might have been heard thing of some one, circled about and to take it up again, whatever It was, returned. Ina had taken his chair 'and his Ina unmistakably said: "Well, and sat clasping Lulu's hand. Ninian mow, dont keep It going all the way continued to laugh. there" ; and turned back to the others "I never saw one done so offhand," with some eluborate comment about said Dwight. "But what you've said the dust, thus cutting off her is all yon have to say according to A lord from his legitimate retort. law. And there don't have to be witjinean advantage. nesses . . . say!" he said, and sat' The city was two hours distant, and down again. On the ,they were to spend the night. Above that shroud-likplaited lace. be'train In the double Beat. Ninian the veins of Lulu's throat showed dark 'slde her among the bags. Lulu tat in as she swallowed, cleared her throat, the simple consciousness that the swallowed again. too been had she knew all that people "Don't you let Dwight scam yoo," ehesen. A man and a woman were she besought Ninian. opposite, with their little boy betweenScare me!" cried Mnlan. "Why, I them. Lulu felt this woman s supethink It's a good job done. If yon ask jrlority mt experience over her owe. me." and smiled at her from a world of fel Lulu's eyes flew to his face. As hn lowship. But the woman lifted her laughed, he was looking at her, and, and turned and stared away. eyebrows new be nodded and shut and opened with dew and insolent winking. bis eyes several times very fast. Their Ninian had a boyish pride in Ma points of light flickered. With a pang Iknowledge of places to eat In many of wonder which pierced her and left cities aa if he were leading certain her shaken. Lulu looked. His eyes la a strange of the tribe to a deer-ruconttnued to meet ber own. It was to his Ninian took iweod. party "Why Not 8ay the Wedding Servicer exactly like looking at his photograph. downtown cafe, then popular among Asked Ninian. Dwight had recovered his authentic business and newspaper men. The air. part wasn't that the .place was belew the sidewalk, was The Oh, well." be said, "we can Inquire .reached by dozen marble steps, and queerest thing? Nothing to do with at our leisure. If It Is necessary, I took the the rest of the play. the odor of its griddle-cake- s we can have It set aside should "I was for the pirates. The one quietly say air of the street. Ninian made up here In the city no onell hook was said he with the a my style," table, great show of selecting be the wiser." changed ence, called the waiter "my Dwight. Set aside suld Ninian. "Well, there It Is again." Ina cried. "I'd like to seenothing!" man" and nibbed soft hands on "What It stand." Co yon say? Shall It be lobster?" "They didn't belong to the real play, "Are you serious, Nln?" He ordered the dinner. Instructing the either." "Snre I'm serious." Ninian have well," said, "Oh, with "they waiter painstaking gruffness. Ina Jerked gently at her sister in to catch I to i cook suppose, can touch your parts. "Net that they put arm. a snd Instead of song ing here. Miss Lulu," be said, settling everybody. "Lulu! Tou hear him? What yen dance, they do that." hhnseif to wait, and crumbling to say to that?" , going "And I didn't understand." said Ina, crust. Lulu shook her head. "He isn't la when all the In aura a they clapped prln "why bit the Dwight, expanding earnest," she said. f the food, observed that Lulu was cipal character ran down front and "I am In earnest hope te die," Nln. to the audience that snld something a regular chef, that was what Lulu Ian declared. He was on two legs of did. But all they wns. He still would not look at his time. his clinlr and was slightly tilting, s Ninian thought this might have that the effect of his earnestness w wife, who now remarked: been ont of compliment. Ina wished "Sheff, Dwightie. Not cheff." Impaired. But he was obvlonsly In This was a mean advantage, which that Mononn might have seen, con earnest. was so festsed the last that part pretty he pretended not to hear another They were looking at Luln again. Hint she herself would not look ; and And mean advantage. now she looked at Ninian, snd came their loveliest there was "Inn," said Lulu, "your hut's Just a Into Inu's eye something terrible In that light. little mltr no. over the other way look which tried to ask him. alone, Lultl sat there, hearing the talk sliout this thing. "Was there anything to preven ivour speaking of that before?" Ina about the play. "Why couldn't I hsv Dwight exploded. "There was a said tlmt?" she thought as the others (inquired acidly. I know there In the theater," he to Said seemed "I started to and then somebody spoke. All that they cried. "I'll get him on the line. He always mild something," said Lulu her apropos, but she could think of could tell fne If there's any way" nothing to add. The evening had been and was eff. humbly. to her a light from heaven hnw Nothing could so much as clou Lulu's honr. She was proof against rotiM she And anything to say? She sat In a d.ir.e of bRppincss, her mind "I dent knew what te make any shadow. to- - hardly look operative, her look moving tremendous but you f Lulu's letters. They are so "Say, from one to another. At last Ninian flight," Dwight observed to her. Understanding perfectly that thl looked at her. "Sure you liked !t. Mias Lain?" jwas said to tense his wife. Lulu ye' rro n covnscnn.i "till, yes! I think they nil took flushed with pleasure. She saw two their part real welL" women watching, and she thought Has Had Lena Vtlen. It was not enough. She looked at They're feeling sorry for Ina noOne of the national standard weights she that them knowing appeallngly, She her." to laughed body talking of rhe United States has not been at everything that the men said. She had not said enough. Med for actnal wefghltg sine It was could bear "Ten everything they 'passionately wanted to tsTs herself. added. "It wan" she received fross tk aid." many folks kaey going past." ra la I'M. dwindled t Mb inhn said, ntaaj times. 1 7 n t I. IV 4i jo t ... 1 Al " Wken the frost is on tke punkin and the fodder's in the shock" go-Jln- e n dog-kenn- i feJ-lo- w ; Did these newcomers to Plymouth get used to the biting off of rain that grew on a cob which wan not edible? Did they fasten their incisors too deep In the cob, as is done at first by most English tasters of the luscious corn? As for the cranberry, who of them visualized the future to behold an American annual crop of a million Brave Burghers of Dutch Town bushels? Who could foresee the bogs of Leyden Held Thanksgiv of four states blushing with the crimson globules, a small library of litering in 1574. ature concerning the berry, and even an association of breeders and defenders of this Indigenous delicacy? That Governor Bradford Has Testified And what of the turkey which furthe Pilgrims Followed "the Lauda poultry yard at the very doors nished of Holland" Propable Custom of the tJnnfrald of man, Pilgrims? er Tribute to Red Men. these majestic birds came with and without invitation. And what of the "After the laudable custom of Holbetween the competition friendly own Is Bradford's description land," Dutch oven which the Immigrants even and functions of one of the many brought over and the Algonquin cookInstitutions Introduced Into America ing hole? No doubt the folks of both and set to work at Plymouth. There red and white skins were strenuous riwas nothing exclusive or selfish about vals to produce the toothsome and saAmerican of the these beginners vory roast. Yet who but a bold huntmade 1C21. They British Isles. Thanksgiving day of er In 1022 ever sees this original Amerinno profession of originality or the At once the Dutch made October 4 ican king of birds? The domestic fowl vention of anything new. They were a Thanksgiving day by going to church. of today is but a pale copy of the magas generous In their acknowledgment Both the date and Its significance are nificent lord of the forest, with its of whnt the Indians furnished for their still celebrated, with the eating not of iridescence of breast feathers feast as they were to their former! turkey and cranberries but of the sheeny and the combs of Its neck and head rehosts for their "courteous entreaty" Spanish stew. After church all the changing when erectile with excitement ceived While In the Dutch repunllc. brides and bridegrooms of the previous I or fear. It Is true that the modern The red men taught the white how 12 months ride tn a gala procession of bird of November struts in ostentato cultivate maize, to make sugar from carriages through the city of Leyden. tious splendor and with a vanity that at maple sap. to visualize the clams by In New Netherlands Thanksgiving times seems very nearly human. Its sea out of the treading them up and day was also a regular function an- display of the exultant passion of vicbeach and. not least for economic suc- nounced by proclamation and observed tory over rivals reminds one of a Wall "Dear Lady In both public and private life. cess, to raise tobacco. boss of finance or a lady that Is Street Nicotine" enabled the Pilgrims to sjueen of the ball. Is It sny wonder send as a present to their Dutch that Benjamin Franklin pleaded elofriends on Manhattan a fine sample of quently that the American wild turkey tobacco fuel for the pipe. In fact, should be adopted as our national emwas tlielr first paying crop for export. November has blem and the symbol of our prosperity coat ef arm. a It is true that Washington Irving No king's coald grander berather than the eagle, helered of monand common tradition here distort lt beats the finott specimens arch and autocrats? Like maize, called but for and legend, history Of ancient heraldry. chronology wheat, this glorious fowl got Turkey In the K Is Bradford's record that Upon a shield of pumpkin pie name It bears because the orlifin the la line of brown and gold North the Pilrlms were the first raisof all novelties wns In that era ascribed ers of tobacco. In all probability, be- Are lozenge of cranberry itiic to Asia, but unltke the cereal grain It And chicken casseroled sides the American Thanksgiving, It still lacks an appropriate name. was thev who Introduced the after Thanks, then, to the Pilgrim Fathers dinner luxury of the cigar. their discovery of the food refor fol-It Is highly probable lo that, sources and gastronomic poss!!iil!t'"S owing the turkey and possibly crnnof the American wilderness, nnd quite without and regard certainly berries, as much to the Pilgrim Mothers, who in cutlele red or white, the fenxt endadded delichmstirss to the native followed n ed In by competismoker, contributions. They certainculinary mnsters tive target practice between ly did continue In the New world of the bow nnd the blunderbuss. most ff the good tliltu's of tlie old These pious folks followed another Nor In th's relation of things in.;t v. snd very laudable gastronomic Dutch A roasted turkey couchant en U forget the TiiiMan. In fact, the more A tablecloth een, ten years custom which during tlielr f lute ef ,f il!i-we have learned of masked. With potato quartering seen and stay In Ieyden they hnd civilized warfare snd the tnetiKwl-- i of white and green, And celery In The besieging Spaniards And apnle red, and pretty girl propagating Ilumilsh culture, the mora ir,74 were considerate enough to furThe flour for cruller (ieving. do we respect the red man. nish Leyden with an oecnslon for And at the top the leeend (eroded Iteverently may we add that the pro Rt fixed was This In Jetter bold, "1 hsnkieiving." Thanksgiving day. In the an Minna Irving in New York Sun. found faith of tiiese pioneers the very sensible date of October 4. clent promises recorded In the eilitt Instead of s Thursday In late Novemchapter of Deuteronomy, roticerninf ber. After William the Silent had cut the the Promised Iitid wherein the dikes at Delfshnven snd sent bread scarceness" "eat should without carrier tl cheer pigeons of by was vindicated. They made le in tn the besieged, the Zeeland Water spired prophecy valid by their Indus Beggars drove their cannon boats up to try and perseverance, and thtir de the city wans, ever which they tossed scendsnts may well follow their ex sun loaves nnd dried herring. These brave n pis In these days. silver on were their mp isskots crescent, called In Dutch a Half Moon, with an inscription showing preference for the Turk rather than the Span-lar- d for their ruler. After this symbol ef valor, daring and freedom was the ship of Henry Hudson named. It was the enterprising boy Gijsbert Cornellison who climbed out early in the morning over the wall to find that the Spaniards had evacuated every one of their camps and tlielr 54 forts. Over the fires was stewing the huts-putIt was this Anglicized as hodge-podgragout of meat and vegetables smoking hot but still untasted which furnished a free dinner on October 4, the day of deliverance. It made a fine addition to the dry rations brought by the victorious Beggars. The exact spot of the Initial rescue and loaf tossing Is marked and the original water gate and masonry are still kept in repair., Near by stands the modern Hall of Archives, In which are more contemporary documents of the Pilgrims, maids, swains, fathers and mothers, with their signatures, than In all the HAD FEAST OF SPANISH STEW The Coat of Arms j 1 j me-sbit- |
