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Show xjIE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE, SUNDAY CORNING, OCTOBER 17, 1926. r C lie a te d BY- FANNIE HURST. i f ?t Author of "tgmmox,' H Hu moraaqua. Copyrig at.. 192ft, by tha McClura Nawapapar Syndicata. ? she waa fourteen, Irene Willets wa notoriously the prettioet . Wayne-illegirl in her clasa, and, more than that, the prettiest girl in kind of radiance that makes She had the golden, sunlit, violet-eye- One more the little cottage resumed the stale kind of normalcy that had characterized it for years. The mantelpiece bloomed no more with hothouse flowers The boys no longer cluttered up the stoop. Long, amorous signals of whistles and catcalls no longer riddled the silent evenings, and the little old lady, on the verge now of retirement and pension, settled back into a quiet that terrified rather than soothed her. The town rattled its tongue and forgot. The school board paid out its monthly pension and practically forgot, too, the little woman who had served it well and long. Irene Willete, who had fluttered as brilliantly as a butterfly gainst the consciousness of the town, fluttered just as easily o.ut of its con.. sciousness. the in old the little lady Only cottage, with the three gerawhich she niums on her window-sill- , tended because of the sense of companionship they gate her, remembered and wept and wondered and. prayed. One day, thirteen vears later, her Irene came prayer was answered. home. At first Miss Lare, whose eyes wer$ still remarkably good, did not recognize her. The pale, stooped, woman who came rather washed-ou- t through the doorway bore so little resemblance to the iridescent Irene. Only the eyes and their lovely violet glamor told the tale. Here was Irene, A flower that had faded on ita stalk. A bud that had lost its perfume. At broken reed of a woman with hands horny at the knuckles and the faint scent of soapsuds her only perfume. Poor Irene, it was as !f she could never, get enough of the solace of Miss Lare's arms. She burrowed in like a starved kitten toward the warmth of its mother. She let her head lie against the feeble beat of the tired old breast. She would not let go the lean, old, clawlike hands for kissing them. You darling, peaceful, dear one, you! How full of serenity vou are. How wisely and how well and how safely you have lived. Oh, hold me close to you, darling to your peace and your quiet and vour solitude.. How safelv vou have lived' one-roo- MTEEN for conspicuous beauty. Irene was none of your kind. She flashed radiantly and immediately upon anv scene. Pedestrians turned to stare after her. Any public gathering focuse upon her. When she was thirteen and rode id Ftaies and remarks floated after street cars, her. The daughter of a widow, a little side street milliner, who worked fingers to the bone to keep her prettily attired, Irene was just one of those inevitable beauties that can spring unaccountably from any and every old environment. When she was fourteen and in Miss Lare's seventh grade class in Ward school, her mother died and, out of a scanty hoard scarcely enough to keep her own sparse body and soul together, Miss Lare took over the responsibility of the girl, sharing her one room cottage with her, and managing to eke out for the girl her, last year in the grade school. Irene had a facile mind. Quick to learn. Quick to forget. A shallow litle pan of a mind with a bright veneer to it. Except for the easv spender, one of the firf? vouths impediment of her beauty to anv about town to own a roadster, he sustained effort, she might easilv arrived from nowhere in particular have fulfilled Miss Lare's dream of to promote some sort of a scheme a teaching destiny for her. for putting Wavnesville on the map But before Irene had even fin- bv a whirlwind of publicity, adverished her elementary etudiea, the tising and propaganda. The scheme boys were thick as bees around the fell through, but his second week there the little one room cottage that pot of Mies Lares little cottage. There was no coping with held Irene and Miss Lare was a wil the eompetitioar" At fifteen, Irene, demess of the eolor and bea utv of by her own violent wish, was clerk- cut flowers and hothouse fruits. ing in Liberty's Nine, Nineteen and Every evening, as soon as she dashed Cent Store. Twenty-ninEager, home from work, Irene, with ma thoughtless, Impulsive, susceptible to of blazing color on her face, darted the admiration that began to flow out of one frock into another lighter thickly and sweetly as honey about and gayer one and was off for this her, Irene wae at once a delight and and that adventure in the motor car. a torment to the staid little starvePoor little Miss Lire held her ling, Miss Lare, who befriended her. breath, whispered silent- - prayers and The estimable teacher, for twenty hoped that the young man was all years on the treadmill of public of the' things that he seemed to be. He was none of them. ecbool work, lived vicariously tbs thrills of adulation, admiration and It turned qut to be one of those melodramatic affairs homage that attended the whirlwind excitements surrounding' her fair so beloved by Victorian novelists. charge. Thrills of delight assailed There was an elopement, a mock her, and at the same time cold chills marriage off somewhere in a remote of fear for the destiny that might village, and, two weeks later, a beso conceivably wind itself treachertrayed, deserted young girl, with her ously around the fair form of the beauty already fading, sat in the young, impulsive girl. front parlor of a small-towhotel And just that latter happened. and waited in vain for the lover and Vhe8 Irene turned seventepn, ra- supposed husband who was never to diantly, almost bewilderitigly' love- return to her. It was from that week on that ly, a young fellow named WiH Durant came to vraynesville.,An Miss Lare lost track of her. i 1 one-roo- one-roo- e I To Bob, or Not to Bob Decide Yourself Men Are Conservative WORLDS HIGHEST PAID SHORT STORY WRITER And so In Mias Lare anna eha fell asleep. How safely yon have lived! Begirding her tired and lnaterleae head there against her breast, the word bit into Mis Lare. Indeed, how safely she had lived. Too safely. Too, without any of the pangs and therefore any of tha joya of human contact. There were lines of grief In Irens face. Lines of pain that eonld only have been etched there through having known the joys as well as the sorrows. Irene had lived. Perhape not wisely. But deeply. She had been hurt, but she had had her moments of exultation. Irene had dfjok deeply of the etrp of life. IYhy, little Misa Lare had never even held it to her lips. She had never even imelled of it, looked down into it to eee if it had dregs or not. Regarding the tired, wilted head against her breast, a surg of tears rose to the lean old throat. Both of them had perhaps been cheated. But, beyond any doubt, Miss Lare, who had never lived, had been cheated the more. MOTHER MAKES IT WORSE. A clergyman and his wife were visited by a parishioner. The clergyman's small daughter, aged 9, walked up to tha visitor and, gazing Intently at hr, said: "Oh. my! But aren't you ugly! j Her mother was horrified and sought to undo the mischief as well as she could. she "Why, Laura, said, "what do you mean?" I Laura stammered: Frightened. onlv It for a Joke." aa been would fortuWhich have nate an escape as could be hoped for, but the mother pushed disastrously onward' "Well, Is would have been a much better joke If you had said. How pretty you are" " Tlt-Blt- s. TO ART AND SCIENCE. "Were matters of politics discussed on the occasion of your visit to that LIMITED eminent official?" No. answered Senator Sorghum. "It makes life kind o dull. When men who know all about politics meet that's the one subject they're not supposed to talk about " Washington Star. ENFORCED RESPECT. "Are you In favor of votes for women?" "Vhv ask so needless a question?" rejoined Senator Sorghum ' Women have the ballot and anybody who commands a tots la In a position to claim consideration." highly respectful Washington Star. By Kathleen Norris Timid About Innovations, Always Affaid That the Little Woman Is Going to Make Herself Conspicuous; but Womens Fashions Change Overnight, and It Is Hardly Fair for the Conservative Member of the Family to Assume to Dictate in Matters of Dress or Personal Adornment. jTVERY woman has a righ.t to try bobbed hair if she wants to. A lot of them write to me, and say they are dying to try it, and they ire pretty sure it will be becoming but Georg is simply raising the roof about it! George savs that if Nancy bobs her hair he'll grow a full set of whiskers George ay he'll leave home. Sometimes George eveu forbide it. Mother, end Aunt Sally, end George 'e mother alio feel it would be a fatal mistake for Nancy to cut that lovely hair. All this girls who havent You'd be an cut their own vet say definitely, Idiot!" and all the girls who wear bobs only say Well I don t ddbiously, When thing have reached this pass, one thing is indicated. That Nancy hat nnoagert matters very badly. Why consult George or mamma or anybody, in the first place! Long before the discussion s'arted, Nancy ought to have slipped downtown quiet. y, one Kathleen Norris, pleasant morning, and returned with a teat little cap of waves replacing the coil'of long tresses she has faithfully brushed and wound for so many years. If Its becoming a success Oeorge will like It ae much at ehe docs. In n few yeare he will be telling their friends of the trouble he had acant ekirt. Her Iron grav uniform has the black cords and frogs, and to perenade Nancy to do iL If it the high military collar of the not n success, but proves too Death 'e Head Huasare, her hats are cult to handle, etnngyand straight, all like email shakos, her gloves then within a few weAi Nancy can gauntleted. A stunning long, heavy, circular cape complete her costume, begin to tuck the ends under, and in the street I have even her in simulate the beaddurer she used to white, beautiful with gold braid and wear, and within two year she will button!, in army blue and nav have a respectably long tm p again. blue, always srler.dsd to look upon, and aa conspicuous as art African nothing to make a fuss about. lion, walking through thg town. Bobbed hair is becoming to most Conspicuous She must love to be women. It gives them a certain that. And almcst all women do, and dash and youthful ness, it means almost all husbaalt dread and fear it. great comfort and cleanliness, it alSo that, aince teerc is this differ most always increases th thickness ence between the so'ial courage of and growth of the hair, and t is so the sexes, it s liar iiv for the eomaon now that the o. annoyance conservaive member of tie fam: o decree hat the member of exclamatory comment is almost eha'.' nr shall not do n't. r.g in re ga-- i to persona! bea'itv gone. It serms to me hat if a husband' Nobody has a right to sav that a - to woman snail or ent.,1 not bob her against h.s w.fn hob her ha r the w,fe w.c.ll he hair. But men are c nc rva'i-av .i g "I"! timid about innovations, a. wavs '..stificd in afraid that the little woman is go make s bargain si't on dear If in? to do something to mane herse.f I dm't hob m ha:- -. w;'l vou grow a mustsehe! I've awavs onge-- to eonspicuoua. Men a fashiont in clothing have see vn a in a hig, buehv. w de alr.issv one' on. aw, that's changed only by lmreere pnble Im not going to hob mv hair, greea m the last hundred yeara. Any fa-man 'a tailor wilLatell jou that the to p'fie vou. d von 're going to ahghteat innovation in the cut of a grow a mustache, to please me"1 If h has, a mustache, then bo poeket, or the l:e of a collar, will fill hia patrona with uness.neai and bout whiskefs! If he haa both, then how about a complete, clean concern. fashions change shave! No martvr at the But women's ever . w.,1 suffered keener agonies than A rrettv woman the whiske-ed man who in first herself apoea-- s dresa hoop sktrs, empire cleanshaven bis o'd frtenda directoire, cmiire," cepes. Tsualiv thnr don't Russian, Chinese anv J vpe- of cos- and ac.cistea tume, and saunter out into tha con- recognise him. IThen tver do thev centrated stare of the avenue, with langh exhaustively and for dars he sort of s'atic ink the greetest composure. There is ia But certainly if George hss one middle aged woman in New Nsncv to beb h York who dressee exactly like a right to forbid army officer, except that in hair, Nancy has a right to forbid s she wears a short. George to wear h: mustache place of trouee-- know'' A smart woman can usually find om wv to exert a gentle pressure upon her husband, however, without ever letting him eee the ml that is . concealed in Somettmes it takes a little thinking oui, end a good deal of patience, hut there is i Stood usually a wav. And thing, in the early day x to remind the new husbartd that there are certain directions in which hie advice ia neitner aol'c.itcd nor sound. A ei rl ' appetrance has been her own affair aince she waa thirteen yeara old; she haa selected the coat, or hat. or shoes she liked, for no better reason than that she liked them. Much better to let her go her own wav still vou marred her, after a'.l, because you thought he waa the most attractive girl vou had ever seen, and you may aa well go right on trusting to her It ia like the old debate about the in the marriage ser word obey 1 ted it The marriage went on. but And the right sort of wife certhe bishop 6) was marrying her never need do anything was deeplv shocked, and her mother tainly againat her Conscience of her judgwaa reported to have wep- - her child's- rebellious- ment or her own real, earneat desire ness simniv because she has said she af-e-all. tbit word meant would Yet, obev." little. Ail me time this controversy Given her health and senses, the was one of the biggest can make her man pay so high for churches went on placidly marrying anv of this authoritablind obeyvoting folk bv a service that "has tive nonsense about ' never contained the word obev, ing" that he will presently be and this was the one church also crawling to her feet with abject that divorce on any terms terms of peace. and 1s consequently a great training Take Margaret Baker 'e case. Marground for gugd and dutiful wives. garet married voting, and married a The right scT. of husband, even in man somewhat above her in the the good old daya when husbands Hia father and mother acaie were permitted bv law to whin their were kind, timple, countrified folk, wives and to leave their children who rarelv came to the citv. in their wil'a, l,ke sit othpr goods One night Tom Baker came home and chattels, to whomsoever Jhev and announced that hi father and 1 never ham woud. allowed mat mother were coming the folters to come to euch a pass that the lowing night, end would atay with law ha to be mvozed Laws dont 'hem. Margaret said involuntarily, mae "Tomorrow night ia the n.gbt we hsppv. Koasea know. rag-ng- - , nt--- . you And they 've been so kind, (ouldnt we perfiape telephone vour father and mother !" Well, Tom didnt uae the actual word "obev," but he might just aa well have done so. He laid that she must kindly allow him to decide such matters, and that hia father and mother must always come first. Margaret fell silent, and ehe welcomed hie father and mother the following night most graciously. She persuaded them to stay another night, and another after that. She blandly canceled the eeatt for "Die favorWalkure. incidentally Tom ite opera, and the wonderful Westchester week-enengagement, to devote herself to Toms father and mother. She flirted with the enchanted old couple, coaxed them, ' love to them. Thev loved vaudeville and film comediea, which Tom loathed; Margaret got eeata for one or the other heart-bronenl- a- let us select the night, un-v- 1 ( Its fa-.- - 1 aixeen-- f stuff that Im He sulked for davs. But e mus-ach- o -- sunk'" durng kets and infantile games. The thought rf changing the attic into a library, and putting the kitchen in the garige, will delight her for weeks. And no matter how much she loves her neighbors and her home town, she will aluavs rejoice m sudden orders to report in Rangoon or Nome, and lejve without a backward glance. He isn't like that. She is. So how does he dare deprive her of the innocent, natural, inexpensive comfort of bohbing her hair! (Copyright, 19CG, bv the Bell d'.cate, Inc.) FIRST QUIET WEEK. "A har that your wife Is dead.f aa!d Sandy to hia friend "Ave." replied Donald, "b eUpplt aw-- a on Monday " "A'm sorry to hear that When la the funeral" Next Monday" "Next Monday?" "Yea It like this." answered Donald "The day w were married she save tae me, Donald eaya ehe, 'you and me will ha a nice quiet week together.' and. Sandy, we're gettin' It t hf lnder. noo. ' 'Pa TIMBER. "Whet polidee or qualification our candidate" "Only Ins family tree." "Um. W can hardly saw that Into for the platform. planke Louisville Cpurler-iJojirna- Free to Asthma and Hay Fever Sufferers Trial Mathpd That Anyona Can Um Without Discomfort or Loot of Ttmo. Wo hav a method for tho control of Asthma, and wo want you to try It our eiponaa. No matter whothor 'at la of Ion vour oaac iandlnir or nt development, mhether It Is preo ent aa Chronic Aathma or Hav Fevor, you ohould send for a free Trial of our method No matter In what ctimato you live, no matter what your aft or occupation, If you are troubled with Aathnia or ITay Fever, our method should relU'e you promptly. W eepeciallv want to tend It to tho apparently hopjf-a- raaa, where all forma of Inhalrra, dourhea. opium preparaMons, fume patent amokea," failed We want to show etc , ha evervone, at oiir oaperiM, that our method la deolgned to end ail difficult bratfiir.f, all wheeztnf, and ail bln used to make a tremen-fusaoout that twenty and thirty year go, nd newspapers d:eueM it, iui tins prominent wo man said the mould sav it, nd that never prominent man said he mou-ask hit woman to eav it, and ao on rcmfn.ber the when San Franiao deliberately oimt nr.i i fni-itio- 8yn-- , thia time Mararet was given to frequent myitenoua burata of quiet laughter. Any wife mar gire ter husband just such a lesson, if sbe his the ingenuity nd rtience. Half the time, when he ia noisdv insisting that he ana thing, it is an indication he reaiiv wan's the exact orpoeite. The dead set change againet which he thie rear will be the verr change of ihcHMi terrible paroavama wh-che i boasting next year as Thia free offer la too important to entirely mv own idea. neyiect a ainfio da.v Writ now and at oiu Send no It ought to be introduced Into the mnney, tho Sinmethodmail ptv coupon below marriage service, thie warning to all Do !t do oen not pay today jou ere poataae new bneban It that women chargeable that thev like innovFPf TAL COUPON ation. Bridegrooms ought to be inFRONTIER ASTHMA formed in advance that every time And all the gtrla who wear bob only Ro.m Niaaara and Hudson she give the bedroom a thorough ,f Wall I dont know 9ta Buffalo N V aay dubiously, cleaning the w.ll eiightlr or radi&nd freo trial method to; ar going to the theater with the i evrv night. Whenever Tom eleared cally alter the' position of the intervals she At regular Koeeeal r hit throat and began to talk wi-Tom eaid haughtily that he had pop, about neglected matter on the will change her trpe entirely; hia with flnffv butterfly will go In for setelephoned the Bosses; "Not," laid farm, Margaret intervened vere linen eollere and high boots, Margaret, with her cheek a little freeh plan. , Tom literary wife helpleaa. If he appeared or hie red, "before you tool me! The 1 over-right- f ungracious or cool to them, it only made Margaret daughterly devotion ehme the brigh-er- . Once she had' occasion to say mildlv, "I don't think vou ought to use that tone to your mother, Tom. He doesn 't mean it. mother," and Tom turned deep red behind the ears, and gritted his teeth. His father and mother praised this charming wife affectionately; they would talk of nothing else. The maddening part waa that Margaret was not acting. She was a loving little thing, and she reallv liked the devotion and admiration of her family." Preaently the appalled Tom heard his parents dubiously discussing the possibility of making their winter home permanently with him. He loved them, of course. But he had had no bridge, no ciub for two weeks, no golf and no opera he ha.d misted the' biggest fight of the winter. He spent his evening looking through eynically lowered lids at movie stars, or at home, listening patiently to his father' version of the McKinley-Brvacampaign. About the firet of November, after fifteen glorious day, the older At parting, tlie pair went home. senior Mr. Baker lovinglv told her son that her daughter meant more to her ' then her four bovs put tome promise Margaret gether. she vou 'll be op for Thanksgiving! said. WU have to let yon know about it." Tom answered darklv, Mareavft, whv did vou ear that!" he asked vexedlv. woen they were W cant do that. Weve alone. got Plana for Thanksgiving." But I think your father and mother ought to come first." Margaret said dutifully, in the darkneaa of the taxi. Dont vou!" No, I don't!" Tom shouted violently. "I think I I I ought to come first I'm so a ck of Cousin Srah's accident and that darned , , h , u highly-educated- |