Show THE GARLANf) t n ARCADIA HOUSE SYNOPSIS - IV— 4— Continued — Almost afraid to touch the letter yet frantic to know its contents Mary picked it up and feverishly slashed it open A sheet of paper folded twice dropped out and glancing toward the bathroom hoping Lelia would not come out until after she had read whatever news the letter held for her Mary started to flatten it out At last her fingers ceased their stupid trembling! At last — It was a check on the Corn Exchange Bank of New York and it read: New York January 22nd 1937 Pay to the order of Mary Loring One Hundred and The National $10000 Dollars Weekly “Lelia!” Mary shrieked rushing towards the bathroom and pound“Lelia! Lelia!” ing on the door Lelia a bathrobe of Turkish toweling wrapped hastily about her opened the door “What’s happened Mary?” she demanded apprehensively “Have you had bad news?” Mary pirouetted about on her silly and sandals waved her precious bit of paper in “Bad news!” she cried the air “Darling it’s good news! Grand news! The best I’ve ever had! Lelia my story’s been accepted by The National Weekly and they’ve sent me a check for a hundred dollars" “Mary! That’s wonderful! Congratulations darling I’m proud of you” “What in the world is going on?" demanded Linnie Cotswell crossing the hall from her own bedroom Mary rushed towards her aunt emand engulfed her in a brace “Aunt Linnie my story 'At Sea’ has been accepted and the magazine’s sent me a check for a hundred dollars Just think of it! A hundred dollars!” “But” Linnie Cotswell demurred her speech somewhat hampered by that bound up her the face “why didn’t they write to you first and make you an offer instead of just taking it for granted that a hundred dollars was satisfactory to you?” “Perhaps Mary looked dubious that’s their regular price for a short Stooping Mary retrieved from the floor the letter vhich had accompanied the check and hastily glanced through it “They say they like ‘At Sea very much” she murmured as she scanned the typed lines “and they want to see more of my work Work Doesn’t that sound professional? A man named Buchanan Phillip Buchanan has signed it” Lelia “I know Phil Buchanan" offered casually returning to the bathroom and reaching for a box of bath powder “Not “No!” Mary exclaimed really! What is he like? Terribly learned and everything?” re— Lelia human" "Terribly “And utterly wrapped up turned NaHe started-Thin his work tional Weekly about twelve years ago soon after he graduated from Harvard and he’s built it up until today it’s just about the biggest thing in weekly magazines The circulation is enormous you know" “Is he married?” Aunt Linnie quired ask “You would ttjat!” Lelia replied chuckling with amicable derision as she started to close the bathroom door “No Linnie He's wedded to his magazine and from all I hear he wouldn’t consider being dragged to the altar by anybody on UTAH SEW HOW-- Ruth Wyeth Spears Mary Loring and her father Jim an effectual attorney meet a train which bring! hi unmarried Linnie wealthy Cotswell and her friend Leila Ormbby vorcee for a Christmas visit at Waiting home for them are Mary's mother her her father's nagging younger sister Ellen maiden sister Aunt Mamie and Peter the At the depot Dr baby of- the family Christopher Cragg helps the guests with their luggage Mary is secretly in love wltth Doctor Cragg In leaving her Aunt Linnie urges Mary to visit her in New York but works in a rental Mary refuses Mary ibrary where she spends her spare time writing short stories Mary's father is lei out as railroad attorney the fees of which were almost the sole support of his family To earn money she decides to begin writIn ing earnest Mary fpels sure that her newest story “At Sea" would please the editors of National Weekly After ishing it she calls Doctor Cragg who comes to the book store for a current novel Falling from a ladder while getting his book she regains consciousness to find his arms around her He tells her he loves her and comhe the to is then tells her be married all his ing month to a girl he has known life Despondent Mary decides lo accept In New Yoik her Aunt Linnie's invitation her aunt laughs at her for hpr plans to write and Insists that she meet as many The new week eligible men as possible the brings two letters — — Onefr0jn — — CHAPTER GARLAND - By ELINOR MAXWELL e TIMES earth” “I’m merely interested in Life as it should be led” Aunt Linnie retorted with mock wistfulness as she left the room the little train of her satin negligee swishing about her heels fingered her Mary left alone Weekly check from TheNational “I’ve finally with loving Angers written a story that was good someone to for buy” she enough PUBLICATIONS— WNU O SERVICE Jerome Taylor held a cocktail glass frosted with sugar to the level of his laughing eyes “My dear” he said softly lifting the glass in an almost imperceptible toast to her “you are ageless!” commented Linnie Cotswell pushing her way towards Mary a dark intense young man in tow “Jerome don’t be trying any of your allure on this Darling Mary we do miss you so The house seems so dull without you child of mine She’s far too young and poor Dad appears absolutely lost and sweet to be contaminated” You see he has always depended on you more than anyone else and while I “Linnie my darling” Jerome try my best to take your place we both Taylor returned completely unknow it isn't quite the same Well Mother has heard about his disabashed blatantly amicable “formissal and the shock of the discovery for how a moment get violently has gone rather tragically for all of us It happened this way She was buying you disapprove of me and tell me sotiie tape tn the notion department at which night this week I may enterSullivan and Ourwerda's and Miss tain you and Mary Loring at dinner Carson came in to get some thread and breeed right up to Mother with Any night dear Linnie Any spot ’Oh Janet want to tell you how sorry Any play” am about Jim's losing hs position" And right before I’ll tell you later “Hush Jerry all the clerks! Mother hadn’t the vaguest nption what Right now I want to introduce she was talking about and although to my niece” Miss Pattie s remark almost made her faint she managed to hold her head up “I await with eagerness that pains and smile and sav "Why Miss Pattie — with impatience that scars” the J’rrrt' had to resiM becjWise'hw rrt Vale busmthS demanding so much of young Italian announced oratorical-lhis time " attempting to wither Jerome Then she paid for the tape and walked out of the store as calmly as she Taylor with a glance could but as soon as she got past the “Mary” said Aunt Linnie trying store window she fairly ran up to to control the corners of her mouth “this is Count Umberto Balianci Balianci Miss Lorjng” Then turning to Jerome Taylor “Trot along to the tea table Jerry Lelia hasn’t been able to coerce anybody except the Bishop’s wife into taking a cup of tea Even the Bishop balked!" Aunt was Linnie’s sentence drowned in a roar of laughter from that corner of the room where Judge Byford was holding forth and Mary suddenly realized that her hand was still clasped in Balianci’s and that his grip was unpleasantly moist “How do you do?” she remarked inadequately smiling at the handsome dark person whose gaze upon her had never flinched “It is an ambition attained” he replied in a voice that struck Mary as being too soft almost oily “An ambition attained?” she repeated uncomprehendingly “But yes!” he returned with fervor "I saw you at the Stork Club two nights ago and since that moment my eyes fell upon you it has been my ambition my sole thought to meet you” “It is an ambition attained" Mary felt a little dazed A fixed he replied in a voice that struck little smile forced itself to her lips Mary as being too soft The man was still devouring her Dad's office and demanded an explanawith his somber eyes all the while tion And when darling Dad admitted the whole thing she fainted and he and extracting a flat gold case from I had a dreadful time bringing her back d an inner pocket removing a to consciousness cigarette lighting it and exMother says we'll have to let Phrony go and no doubt we will in time and haling a puff of heavily scented Aunt Mamie says she can't do a lick of smoke “Egyptian cigarettes” work what with her arthritis or neuritis "That heavy fraor whatever it is she's supposed to be thought Mary having this winter grance makes me a little sick” And what do you think? A report's she Aloud said inanely “I didn’t going around town that Christopher see you at the Stork Club” Cragg's going to be married soon — to a girl he’s known for some time Her “One does not expect a queen to name's lisa Graceland and she's the notice a serf” purred Balianci daughter of a Chicago doctor Have you heard anything about It? Everybody Mary thought perhaps she was seems awfully surprised and really for When would this going to scream a I must say Chris doesn't look particularly radiant asininity ever end? New York? Do do you love Darling At nine' Jerome Taylor came to write me about everything “We’re seeing each bid her Give my love to Aunt Linnie and Lelia but save most of It for yourself other Wednesday evening” he told “Linnie has actually agreed Mary so blinded by tears that she her to let me have a little party for could scarcely see folded the letter and tucked it beneath the pile of you Dinner at my house and afterwards seats for 'High Tor’ ” handkerchiefs in the little As for Balianci he left ten minof Lelia the was drawer highboy coming into the room and she must utes later and too wedged his way not see her tears through the crowd to say good night Mary her back to the other girl Again he took Mary’s hand in his hurriedly applied a handkerchief to damp grip and focused the full warmth of his brooding gaze upon her eyes then with apparent casualness reached for the powder puff her “Fate is being kind to me” and dusted it over her straight little he said softly "We are meeting “I shall get that check again very soon” nose He was gone before Mary could cashed tomorrow” she said to herself “Aunt Linnie’ll tell me where reply and with an ague of repulsion she thought “Good heavens to go And I’ll send all but fifteen dollars of it to Dad Something will has Aunt Linnie made an engagehave to be kept out for my pocket ment with him too?” Oh poor dear money Poor Dad Later when the guests were gone Dad!” and Addie and Louella were putting A thin blue haze of cigarette smoke hung like a delicate cloud Anticosti over Linnie Cotswell’s living room and the smell of tobacco Ophelia Many Times roses and the last word in imported perfumes filled the air It was SunAnticosti now ap island appendday afternoon and Linnie’s friends were dropping in to meet Mary Lor- age to Quebec has changed hands ing many times in its career says the Miss Cotswell flitted about from National Geographic society Last guest to guest exchanging a wel- leased in 1926 by a pulp and paper coming word here a bantering sen- company it has served— in reverse tence there Lelia Ormsby presidorder — as a pulpwood empire a rich ed over a silver tea service that had man’s social experiment a pirate’s once belonged to a Russian grand stronghold and an explorer’s reduke while Mary remained en- ward trenched behind a group of men In Roughly in the shape of a great front of the fireplace whale its tail in the St Lawrence “And why has Linnie kept Jrou a river and its head in the Gulf of St this time?” a tall man Lawrence Anticosti island is about secret all with a gardenia in the buttonhole of 140 miles long and averages 35 miles It is a sportsman’s parahis cutaway coat was saying “I across To dise Great forests of spruce bring for one demand an apology think you’ve been walking in beauty green down to its very shores game tofill been streams and flocks of fish its and I’ve these all years ducks and geese stop off there regutally unaware of your existence!” He was a distinguished-lookinlarly on flights north and south So hair conspicuously placed and accessible person with and that intriguing assurance of is it that for the last 400 years this manner' which only those who al- island has been the scene of man’s It has activities and experiments ways get what they go after possess Mary cudgeled her memory known business booms and colonifor his name Taylor! That was it zation schemes that failed It has seen the fashionable chateau life of —Taylor Jerome Taylor a French “chocolate king” and been She smiled back at him mocking“All this time and all these the haunt of an eccentric charged ly “Aren’t you with being not only a buccaneer but years!” she quoted in league with the devil besides making me fearfully old— almost In 1534 Jacques Cartier seeking passee?” “Now I’m told herself with awe started on my life’s work” Opening the top drawer of the dressing table she extracted the new brown suede purse Aunt Linnie had just given her opened it and slipped the check inside the zippered Then pocket turning eagerly towards the bed she picked up Ellen’s letter the apartment to order and opening the windows to let in the crisp February night air Aunt Linnie formed Mary that she had indeed made an engagement for her with Count Balianci “He wants to take us to dinner Tuesday evening” she said Lelia nibbling a d about sandwich turned swiftly “Not me!” she said sharply "I won’t go anywhere with that gigolo!” “He’s not a gigolo Lelia I” Linnie replied almost angrily “I don’t know why you’re so suspicious of all foreigners with titles Besides he— he didn’t ask you” "He knows I wouldn’t be seen with him!” Lelia retorted sinking into the depths of a chair and kicking off her pumps “Well snubbed him so you’ve often” Linnie admitted “that no doubt he’s finally taken the hint But after all he is a charming pernd a perfectly- - legitimate son count” ' “As if that meant anything these days!” Lelia retorted “I want Mary to have every opportunity" Linnie went on "and after all Umberto has a title goes everywhere belongs to one of the oldest Italian families In fact he's a sort of cousin of the king’s” “He might travel faster if he were a cousin of II Duce’s” Lelia observed icily “He’s terribly taken with Mary” Linnie continued happily “and realit would be rather fun for ly her to be the wife of a diplomat" “I’m not at all interested in marriage Aunt Linnie" Mary said harshly her heart contracting as she thought of Chris “AH that I care about is writing— and making a lot of money in the quickest possible time In fact I’m starting a new ‘short’ tomorrow morning” Miss Cotswell rose from her chair and started towards the hall which led to her bedroom “All right Mary” she said coldly “I’U leave you to your own devices for a few days knowing only two well that you’ll soon get over this foolishness about being a woman with a career Every young girl who comes to New York entertains that complex for a while — and then eventually reaches the sane conclusion that after all marriage is the one and only thing for a woman” Mary leaped to her feet and aunt rushed to embrace her “Please don’t think I’m ungrateful Aunt Linnie for all that you’re doing for me I appreciate everything absolutely everything And thank you darling for the wonderful party” Linnie Cotswell restored to good humor brushed Mary’s cheeks with her lips “All right my dear As for your working on one of your little stories you just start right in morrow I for one hope to sleep all day” CHAPTER V Mary woke with a start at seven the next morning and for an stant lay in her comfortable bed wondering just where she was At And was the home in Hawkinsville? slim figure beneath the covers in the other twin bed that of Ellen? Then as consciousness came fuUy upon her she realized that she was id New York in Aunt Linnie’s apartment and that the sleeping girl beside her was Lelia Ormsby It was while she sat scanning the headlines of the Herald Tribune a second steaming cup of coffe in one hand a third piece of Addie toast in the other that brought in the mail “Anything for me Addie?” she asked (TO BE CONTINUED) Island Has Changed Ownership Roughly in Shape of Whale that mythical short cut to the East first officially recorded the island and called it "lie de rAssomption" Already however Basque fishermen familiar with this region from early fishing trips had described it as "Antecosta” or' island “before the coast”— the name which still sticks slightly changed in spelling In 1630 a grateful king Louis XIV of France presented Anticosti to r Louis the Joliet who with Father Marquette had sailed the Mississippi and later exHudson for his bay plored country For a decade Joliet enjoyed fur and unfish trade with nearby Indians til he and his wife were made prisoners by Sir William Phipps’ raiding in current the party conflict Tradition ' says - that Joliet was eventually exchanged and returned to his island home At any rate during the next century family heirs squatters and other claimants disputed its possession Boasting of Power “We find” said Hi Ho the sage Chinatown “that we lose much strength in boasting of power which would be great if we only held a fraction of what we mention of Draperies for NEED some help” my friend’s voice said over the ‘‘The living room dratelephone I am bursting peries are finished with pride over them but I don’t know how to ones for Ihe French doors" “Yes I want to cover the door frame at the sides but I can’t cover much of the door because it must open and shut without interI did fering with the draperies want the curtain rod for the door to match the ones at the windows ‘¥ too” Her voice trailed off in a distone as if there were to couraged just too many difficulties ever be solved But they all were solved The sketch shows exactly how it was done The curtain rod was placed on hooks near the top of the door frame and extended a French doors good 7 Inches over the wall at each side of the doors The curtains wer' sawed tfc t'iflgs- ?When they were in place they covered both the hooks and the sides of thedoor frame and allowed the doors to be opened NOTE: These curtains were lined and had a pleated heading They were made from the sketches in Mrs Spears’ Book 1 SEWING for the Home Decorator Book 2— Gifts Novelties and Embroidery is also full of practical money saving ideas that will help you with your Spring and Books are 25 Summer sewing cents each if you order both books leaflet on how to make Rag Rugs is included FREE Address Mrs Spears 210 S Despiaines St Chicago 111 Items of Interest to the Housewife AROUND HOUSEf the Good for Flannels — A teaspoon of glycerin in the rinsing water makes flannels come out like new Cleaning Window Shades— Light window shades may be cleaned with a flannel cloth dipped in flour Safety First— Even with a properly insulated washing machine or other electric laundry appliance it is a good precaution for the operator to dry her hands before touching the switch that controls the current Salad Molds— Muffin pans make good individual molds for gelatin and foe macaroni and salads cheese mixtures Cleaning Light Leather— Sweet milk is a simple agent to keep light leathers clean and soft Saturate a soft clean cloth in milk rub until the surface is clean then Frewipe with clean dry cloth quent cleaning keeps the leather soft and beautiful If allowed to become very soiled more drastic methods may be needed e Rinse Lingerie Well — When washing fine lingerie follow the Improving Apple Pie — When suds with at least two and prefmaking apple pie or apple pud- erably three rinsings ding add the grated rind and juice of an orange This greatly improves the flavor Joining Wool Yarn— Knotting your wool is never a satisfactory method of joining When you next start a fresh ball thread a darning needle with the end of the wool and run your needle along the new end of used wool for about You will one and a half inches find that this makes an invisible join which will not come undone C Safety T'HE Talks ) 'Pedestrian Faults' National Safety council has charged pedestrians with a large share of the responsibility for traffic accidents that killed Of this total persons in 1937 15400 were pedestrians In “Accident Facts” a statistical review of 1937 the council said: “Many pedestrians show utter lack of caution in their use of streets and highways Combined state reports for 1937 show that in 67 per cent of all fatal pedestrian accidents the pedestrian either was violating a traffic law or was acting in an obviously unsafe manaccidents pedesner In trian faults appeared in 69 per cent of the cases” such described The council failure to things as drunken observe traffic lights walking walking with instead of against traffic on rural highways crossing streets in the middle of a block as “pedestrian faults” NERVOUS? 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