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Show Shall Mother Go Back to School? Writer Sees Advisability of Keeping Up With the Times, but By ANNA McCLURE SHOLL SYNOPSIS On her way to a faculty position In Lostland Academy, Janet Mercer meets Prof. Arthur Fleming, also on his way to the Academy. At the railroad station they meet Mrs. Denver, engaged as matron. At the school the group Is Btruck by an air of mystery pervading the place. Gordon Haskell, proprietor, welcomes them. Wilton Payne comIn a pletes the Academy faculty. schoolroom Janet finds a group which the teachers had supposed were scholars, are wax figures. Haskell explains the unusual circumstances connected with the conduct of the Academy. Among the pupils Is Berenice daughter of the late owner of the school. The story of the tragedy of Lostland Academy Is that of two sisters and two brothers of Berenice, who lost their lives In the water, at the same moment, some years ago. Brace-bridg- e, CHAPTER III Continued 9 WNU Servlca stood an Immensely tall man. Two piercing eyes regarded him from a putty-pal- e face. The man made no sound, but after a prolonged scrutiny turned and went down the passage. Again he heard steps In the passage, but they were light, like those of a woman. Berenice appeared in Yes an old farmer coming up on the other side to fell a tree he heard them shout and saw them just as they plunged in, their arms raised trying desperately to regain their balance. Then they all went down. Father was in such agony of mind because he had detained Mr. Haskell from going the doorway. along with them to curb their adBalder told me you were looking venturous spirits; he wanted Mr. Hasat the figures. I came to tell you it is kell to take down dictation, and they not the best thing to do I she said in were shut up on the library all afterher gentle voice, her beautiful eyes re- noon. Then came a knock on the door. It was Balder to say that while garding him gravely. I am sorry if I have done anything he was working in the vegetable garout of the way or anything to hurt den a farmer, white as death, had I admit I rowed across the lake in the twilight you, Miss Bracebridge. to tell of the accident He cried like yielded to my curiosity." It doesnt hurt me, she answered. a child, could only cry out for a But my guardian becomes very much while: Doctor Jethro I My God! I disturbed if people look at the figures. could not help them. 1 was on the Did he have these figures made? other side. Oh, no! But he will tell you him"The farmers name? self. "Jerry Moore. He lives about a I am glad you cautioned me about mile from here, all alone; his people these figures have all died. Oh, I like you all I want you to Hes trustworthy?" stay ! Jerry? Oh, yes! yes. And he I am glad of that I hope you will adored my brothers and sisters. They know Miss Mercer better. She is very were so gay and friendly with everylovely." one." I quite agree with you They have Was there ice forming at the time? not always been lovely. Could they have slipped on that? You mean the teachers govIt was too early for ice. No, Isabel ernesses? went too near, lost her balance, I supYes, and usually when they found out about these figures they went pose, fell, and dragged the others away. . They they were afraid of down." Then the figures were made them. Ah, please! He will tell you about Of their strangeness, perhaps?" Yes and the servants are the same these. Her eyes softened as she looked at way except Balder." Who Is Balder? them; and he thought of a day when The very huge man. He came to she would be much older than the work for my father years ago; and ages represented by these mannequins ; father jestingly called him Balder the and down the long avenue of time she Beautiful, from Matthew Arnolds would still perhaps see her lost brothpoem, I suppose. He is very ugly, but ers and sisters in their eternal adoleshe is a strong man to have around cence ; and keep them in a playground the place. And he doesnt mind the of memory from which they could figures. But the country people around never emerge adult and weary. Her here do. Did you see some of the own brilliant beauty had an element in It which he felt would be there pupils watching the corridors?" Yes, I noticed it. through all her life the indestruct"Theres a queer, superstitious tra- ible element of the soul. Shall I shut the door? dition in the mountains that the figures are really alive. No one, I supYes; you see, theres a small cirpose, actually believes It, but no ser- cle of glass let into It so Mr. Haskell vant will go down the corridor when can look in and see that they are they are kept after dark. She paused ; right and in their places. then said: Tell me, did you know But why look in why have them Mr. Payne before you came here? around at all? No. It was a clause in fathers will, He has eyes that look straight she said. It neednt be after I am through one. twenty-one- . Oh, Mr. Haskell will tell I am sure he is a good psycholyou." ogist. , shut the door quietly as if not I am sure of it, too. When I know to They disturb those waxen scholars, and him better I shall ask him many down the corridor they went toquestions." At the foot of the staircase gether. May I ask you one? leading to the main hall she left him. Certainly. Arthur, full of his story, sought out Why were you on that dangerous Wilton. He ran him down at last in cliff path this afternoon? It was comthe library. The vast place was paratively safe where we were in only by a kerosene theres a bank; but you had nothing whose circle of light Wilton lamp, was exbut air between you and that frightful amining fome books. whirl. I was afraid you would venHello, old fellow I ture down to the little platform the Hello, boy I Well, what have you little stone ledge overhanging the found out? I can tell by your manner whirl. that you have discovered something. She shivered. "Oh, no; they fell Ive been talking to Berenice. from there! Wilton looked up jealously. Where Poor children Were there no did you see her? Strange Strange Payne muttered. Its a marvel to me that Berenice Bracebridge has emerged so sane and sweet from such congeries of circumstances that dreary pile, that strange guardian, a tragedy In her background, If not In her life. On the other side, Arthur left them rather abruptly. Im not going In Just yet Ill see you at dinner. He strolled around a while, visited the little graveyard, finally leaned up against a tree and regarded the old academy, from whose cupola high above the eaves It was probable that no bell would sound again. No sign of life was about It no light shone forth from door or window. Its secret whatever It was seemed locked In its ancient heart His thought drifted to the figures. He meant to see where they were kept ; he wanted to examine them closely. He looked about him a basement ran under all the house, its windows facing a stone retaining wall which at one spot was broken to admit of tXeps going down. Arthur, examining them, saw that they led to a door which was half ajar; a door hanging by one hinge and badly in need of Green moss blanketed the paint. steps and muffled Arthurs footsteps. Squeezing through the narrow aperture the doors sagging position offered, he found himself in a dismal passage from which opened rooms. Cautiously opening several doors, he saw rooms of a depressing aspect-da- rk, moldy, the plaster or paper falling from the walls. One proved to be an abandoned kitchen with the great range of an antique pattern rusting away in its frame of bricks. A marble pastry table had become so yellow and discolored that it suggested a kind of diseased stone. A bucket under it, covered with dried-ured paint, did not seem a cheerful object. An old, rusty frying pan lay disconsolately in one corner. He went on hurriedly and finally came to the room which he sought It had been used, it was evident, at one time, as a supplementary schoolroom, for a blackboard covered one of the teachwalls behihd the ers desk. On it in freshly-writte-n letters made by red chalk were four names. Jethro Bracebridge, Jr. Althea Bracebridge. Norman Bracebridge. Isabel Bracebridge. 'He saw these names as he entered. The next moment be started violently. The four wax figures in the fading About twenty-fivyears ago Dr. S. light were so Kal that he imagined E. one was of a number of Sheppard for a minute that he had blundered who in watched Paris students eagerly into an actual study hour. Then their preternatural stillness told him Professor an Henri of the Sourbonne, extraordinary experiment. that he had found the hiding place of perform is a nonconductor, rubber Although had been Janet the dummies. quite made the particles of It professor right they were beautifully done the toward travel pole of positive the flesh tint quite natural, the grave, was in effect a battery. Then what of faces the little girls sweet, brooding metal of as absorbed as if some lesson of a he would exhibit the pole, coated with rubber. course, over had continued long-agspring No violation of the familiar printhe years an eternal problem. Their was insoft, abundant golden hair moved a ciples of electrodeposition knew While the volved. in which professor drew little in the draught door. He put a well enough that plating a piece of from the metal with rubber had its Industrial finger against one curl, then quickly he preferred to talk of of a had thrill If life as possibilities, raised it; Ions," anions and cathlons. been communicated. Arthur watched All this, says New York Times, each figure in turn as if a danger look one to at cease to made a very deep Impression on Shepexisted, that of them was to incur a harm from the pard so deep, In fact, that when he returned to America and later found rest. He jumped I Had one moved! The he commented. a himself a member of the staff of a fafool, Im But mous research laboratory he deter first time In my life I ever had nerves. mined to develop Henris discovery in The golden hair on one of the fig He in the draft. dustrially. He and a colleague, Dr. L. ures stirred softly W. Eberlin, finally arrived at a process bent to look at the eyes, almost exnow well established through pecting to see the lashes quiver; then which is The inter international a kind of glanced up, and this time account case is the of .national from him the aspect showing paralysis kept the not because ed for original idea emotion he felt. In the doorway ! ! 1 black-painte- d p ! TO BB CONTINUED. Research Leads to the Development of Rubberizing Process in Industrial Way e o half-opene- d but because two Hungarian chemists bad also been at work on rubber plating in Budapest. All these processes have now been combined with the result that anode rubber coatings, as they are called, are finding hundreds of new uses. came from Paris, Peridot, or Jobs Tears -- woman judge In New A York city is going back to school in her leisure time. She is Magistrate Jeanette Brill, who is attending evening college classes to resume study of a subject she had to drop seven years ago when she was appointed to the bench. The Inspiration for this step, we are told, is the fact that the judges daughter is about to be graduated at college, so her mother thought It was time for her to add another degree ! I must keep up with my , Bell Syndicate. WNU Service, daughter, she says. I believe that every mother who education should has a complete a college course in her spare time, in afternoon or evening classes. If she does not, the average STOPPED UP housewife falls into a rut Her husband finds her unequipped mentally to discuss current problems with duetocolcli. him, and the children come to look A on her as merely a convenience. college degree for the mother would Use Menlholaf urn keep many family cases out of lo help open the court. nostrils and permit It was that statement by the judge freer breathing that caused one of my readers to send me the newspaper clipping which told of her going back to iO.VeilCOMFO school, a noted woman writer comwrites this ments. Easy talk, friend of the column, telling every Briefly Told mother to go to afternoon or evening Affection can withstand very seschool. Having a family and being vere storms of vigor, but not a long a judge looks like a big job, and it frost of indifference. Sir Walter probably is, without going to college Scott. at night. But what about the servants who run the judges home, the secretary and others she can hire to take all details off her hands? If this judge will spend a few days with a woman who takes care of her own home and even just one or two chilfour .own druggist is author? Vized to cheerfully refund your dren not four, like mine she wont money on the spot if you art be so quick to say every mother And if a should go back to school jiot relieved by Creomulsion mothers going to college would keep some families out of court, as she G suggests, I can show her ten to one where a mother not giving all shes got to her home would certainly land her in the divorce court An extreme statement, of course, to advocate that every mother attend classes to get a college degree. We all know about that meat that is CLEANSE INTERNALLY some mans poison. However, the Doctors advlie: The moment a cold left in, example of this judge is interesting eat sparingly. CLEANSE and valuable to all women, even INTERNALLY. 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