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Show THREE SHUTTERED HOUSES HCW SEW Ruth Wyeth Spears By BEN AMES WILLIAMS i gDiiferentta gcheled Chair Set ratten No. 1957 nar-thaR spring with this set. It will freshen chairs. Or if it's a scarf ir chair back for use the id, Pattern 1957 contains ids. ud directions for making iterials required; illustra-stitche- for this Circle, Eighth Avenue, coins U cents in The Sewing to 82 s. Nee-Oep- t., N. Y. write your name, ad :d pattern number plainly. irk, c semes 20YDS. BIAS CHAPTER I ... IDOLATRY the stale, made for man . . . indeed lie the gmlet irony il mankind wen- - to allow all to be tlifled by the setting up (ana of idolatry, the worship not niailr fur vit X k dale tw Sr." Men. .ialAofl) ERVOUS? annua yne want to knobT irriuUt? Uo you aeoid mi la yen? h anna an on edje and you lad aeaera! system tonic, try Kakhaak YtsttaUg CompouuL mdiysrsvsini. e a Aon one woman baa told an rum luilinr thru" with reliable iCsopuund. It helps natuiu build tapint mistsnee and thus bdpa MU serves ami kssen dtsenmloata id no aid ld 'aaar Wfbr.it a ehinrv to help YOU? ashy women haw written in amdotid benefits from PinkhanTl a li Of 4 at rest have Inertia; they are hard to move. But objects in motion may by the least force be diverted, end their whole future couree thus changed. It ie id with lives; for life Is motion, end this Is particularly true in youth. A young man's most casual encounter may modify his whole life thereafter, In splendid or In dreadful waye. It was Mabel Gaye who performed thli function for Clint Jervlca. Mabel was of no least Importance in Clint's eyes. He had never met her till Enid Meson's dance at the Somerset and he saw with some distaste upon their first encounter that Mabel had had a little too much to drink. But the youngster who was her escort for the evening wai In worse case than she, and in no condition to drive a car; so a little before midnight Clint who had on this occasion no feminine responsibilities of hla own, volunteered to take Mabel safely home, end had Enid's thanks for that consideration. When he end Mabel emerged from the hotel, it was raining, gusty squalls with an occasional roll of thunder;- - and Mabel lived a dozen or fifteen miles out of Boiton along the Providence road, so that the drive wee a long one. As soon as they were in the car, she went to sleep end stayed asleep tin Clint roused her to direct him through the last stages of the journey. When they reached her door, she urged him to come In, and when he declined this Invitation, she insisted on being kissed good night. Clint thus far obliged her; but he said at once afterward: "I'll have to run along now. There's some construction on the road. X had to detour, coming out It will take me an hour to get back to town." "Oh, you don't have to hurry," she pleaded. "You can dodge all that by going over Kenesaw HilL And to his questions, she gave him directions how to find this byhe way. At a certain traffic-ligmust turn to the right He nodObjects ht ded his understanding, but insisted on departing. She stood in the open doorway still pleading, while he got into the car at the foot of the steps; but when she caw that he was bound to go, she called softly: "Well, good night! And thanks a loti You were a peach to bring me home. Telephone me tomorrow. "Sure will," Clint promised. 'Til be seeing you. He wee perfectly sincere in this promise; but as a matter of fact It was more than two years before he aw'her again, and he had by that time completely forgotten their former encounter. Yet if be had not taken Mabel home, end returned to town by way of Kenesaw Hill, (here is no reason to think he would ever have seen June Leaford, and Kitty Leafords death must have gone unremarked, and those three shuttered houses on the Hill might well have hid their dark secret to the end . . . Clint left Mabel Gaye standing in I ilk iate Lofty Thoughts and reverently as jou can with your loftiest ' Each thought that is and record pd is a nest the side of which more t . Thoreau. her own door and drove away. He chuckled and rubbed his lips with the back of his hand where she had killed him; and he thought soberly that someone ought to toll her a few things, and was amused at hie own puritanic mind. He had not always been so austere, and he fur-g- Mabel now to think about himself, as a young man is apt to da Before Clint father died, the older man must have suspected that H,lto for sirSfuf "to Bowola Clint and his sister Clara were not I'rwithliikillluaUvM for he ready for created the Jerviei Trust; and Miss womMoss, an angular middle-age- d an with a surprising tenderness beneath her iron exterior, who had !u hwto wlV 'nnulS been Mr. Jerviei secretary, became the actual if not the titular head of that Trust. She had been to these almost like a foster-mothQUICK RELIEF children since their own mother FOR ACID died, and continued in that role. INDIGESTION Clint, reflecting tonight in a mild amusement on his own virtuous disThrough Fire approve! of Mabel Gaye. thought west ft iulsliips have Miss Moss would likewise be She had ?td n nur.ual adversity; amused at hia attitude. t strom.iv united in the used to be so deeply distressed by Culiuu. and Clint's own recklessness, UO'JS? llltnlng. Ha passed for a whlla Hiat nightgown, for all its severs at all; but as ha was praised close to her simplicity, crossed the flat top of Kenesaw Hill body by the wind; It wai glued to " saw, dimly through the Mmi housea set absurdly closerain, her by the rain. Clint w that this to one side of the road. Clint wee, incredibly, a girL not a woman at alL A rather taU girl, slender thought it wee as though they hud-newithout being thin. She had run one another in this soli-fthe sake of company. The gracefully, he remembered that His heart wee pounding, shaking front door of the middle one of these him. He pulled up the car and wal open, with a light burn-i- n the hall, and he decided that opened the door on the side toward her. door had blown open, that d "Where the matter?" he asked. come down M residences ar eome-woul- presently end it. Then the houses fell behind as he drove on. In the illumination of an especial-brigh- t flash of lightning, he had an impression of something white, moving, beside the road ahead of Suddenly she eald: "Thank you! No trouble," dint aast&ed her. "I'D take you anywhere- -" "I didn't mean that, she said honestly. "But its not far. He felt, rather than saw, that she was breathing with long careful inhalations, as though she had to be on guard test she ahudder or sob. He aeked slowly: "Something frighten you? Can't I help? He spoke carefully, in a No, no, the girl told dint, her gentle tone, so that he might not frighten her voice trembling. I'm not afraid. further. Whata the matter? Any- I'm not." She whispered with sudden passion: "I'm not! I won't be thing I can do?" No, no, she stammered. She afraid I wee breathless, panting. Yet he saw that she was desperate 1 can give you a lift," he urged. with terror. This is no night" "Listen, he urged. "I dont want She appeared to change her mind. to butt in. But don't you need She came toward him, and he someone to stand by?" wung the door wide. "Yes, taka 'Tin all right," she insisted. me on," she bade him. "Straight Ha nodded; but he said gently: on. And she climbed into the car Tm dint Jerviei. Pm respectaend sat down beside him in the wide ble. If you ever went help, Id seat here. like to- -" She wai, of course, drenched. She said: "Let me out, please. Put on my coat, he urged, and dint protested: "I don't mean to to started strip it off. bother you. You neednt run away No, no. she repeated, not far. And she urged: Go on. Quick- from me. "This Is where I want to go," she ly, please!" Quick. Stop." Ha set the ear in motion; and he Insisted. looked at her sidewise in an indint obeyed her.' The car had credulous end delighted wonder. scarce ceased moving before ehe Her hair, heavy with water, lay lipped to the ground. She dosed cross her shoulders in dark rib- the door behind her. She celled: bons; her single garment wee so Thank you. Then the wee gone, much a part of her that she seemed vanishing into the wood beside the like wet marble. He thought of road. He hesitated, ell reluctance. The sculptured nymphs under a fountain's arching screen. In one swift rein still pelted; lightning flickered remotely, or crashed close at hand. glance he saw her entire, end He saw something like path where She did not return hie glance; she had disappeared. But she wee gone, and dint ruebut neither did she seek to cover herself from hie eyes. Her own fully drove on. He passed a crosswere fixed straight ahead; yet by road; and presently the way he folsomething in her very posture, in lowed joined the main thoroughfare the rigidity which she maintained, into Boston. Before he came home he had dehe knew ehe wee conscious of his fighting to ignore IL cided what to da Inspector Tope scrutiny, choked and stifled by her own sud- had proved long ago hie capacity for den realization of how aha must ap- finding an answer to the moat obscure conundrums; the dd man pear to him. dint, in a swift sympathy and might be able to read the answer tenderness, (witched off the dash-ligh- t, to this riddle of lovely girl, scantiso that aha sat in a cloaking ly dad, running to desperately darkness. He kept his eyes therelong a lonely country road in the after upon the road and did not look night and in the rain. at her again. So presently he felt It wee too late to seek out the Inher relax a little, beside him; and spector end Miss Moss tonight; but he wee conscious that she studied tomorrow, dint decided, he would him for a long moment, with a go to them with this fantastic tele. deep attention. (TO BE CONTINUED) ire Ns, as, aha stammered. She was breathless, panting. him, and just beyond the range of his headlights. You often saw creatures along the road at night, saw them usually as two red spots that were eyes, law them later as dark shadows where a cat or a dog squatted to watch you pass. But this thing was not two red spots; it was a white bulk. Hie headlights caught it now. Moving-y- es, running. He leaned forward morf intently. Thia was a person, running ahead of him along the road. It was woman, running ahead of him through the rain. There was a curious shapelessness about her; and he recognized the reason for this: her dark heir was streaming over her shoulders, so that she seemed to have no head. Her feet, he thought were bare. A woman in a nightgown. He was within fifty yards of her now, overtaking her. The nightgown, he saw, was not of eilk or satin or any soft material; it appeared to be a sober garment entirely lacking in frivolity; yet it was Indubitably a nightgown, and by the same token there could be no doubt that it wai the only garment this woman wore. Clint was driving slowly, and the woman ran swiftly, so that ihe kept for an instant this distance ahead of him. Then, like a wild animal which perceives the hopelessness of straightaway flight, she suddenly turned aside off the road, and she tripped and fell headlong, and swung around in one swift motion and came to her feet again. Like a creature at bay she faced him, her back set against the trunk of a great tree. He would remember the picture she made. He saw her face, a white oval framed In the dark shadows of her hair. One strand of hair was plastered across her brow end cheek by the rain, like a black band across her countenance. She brushed this desperately aside. Robert Of Fame; U1' B1xi Uxly Waste 5aS?is tstt 1 A Mam wd rH lined, my upset Um hs 55S2 "tginr baetmdw. SfltSg-TU- K "2 giags d young He thought tonight that sobriety and virtue might sometimes mean a certain loneliness. When she could trust Clint to stand on his own feet, Miss Moss had married Inspector Tope; and Clara, long before that, was married to young Mat Hews, whose new play would open in Chicago in a day or two. Considering these things tonight, Clint decided it must be fun to be married, if you found the right girL Then he came to the traffic light Mabel Gaye had described to him, and turned off the main highway, up Kenesaw HilL It was near one oclock in the morning; end the shower wee on in lull force a drenching rain, flares STITCH THE VALANCE TO AN OLD SHEET OR MUSLIN CUT TO FIT THE TOP OF THE BED SPRINGS A A valance for new house it was, and all the curtains and slipcovers were made by following my sketches in Book 1, SEWING, for the Home Decorator! But when we came to the second floor was my turn to get a few pointers. The treatment of each of the two principal bedrooms was quite different. One was very simple with lovely old quilt used for a bedspread; the other was in flowery glazed chintz with strong accents of bright greenish blue. Both beds required a valance that would not be removed with the spread at night. Here is the flowered bedspread and the small sketch shows you SMART THREE SHUTTERED HOUSES ScLUSi two young people involved in the unfolding of the drama. Begins Today Items of Interest to the Housewife Substitute for Bread Crumbs. Good substitutes for bread or cracker crumbs in casserole dishes are potato chips, shredded wheat, flaked dry cereals, and small noodles. When Buying Kitchen Tools. Consider their weight, the sharpness of the cutting edge, and how comfortable their handles are. To Stiffen Hairbrush Bristles Dissolve an ounce of alum in a quart of boiling water, and when cold pour into a Stand only the bristles in the solution for half an hour, then shake well and allow to dry with the bristles downwards. pie-dis- h. How 25 Women Lost Ugly FAT In Special H. Y. Test NEW YORK. N. Y. In a tost by a K. Y. lhysician and nationally jnown newsiarr woman 25 women lost a total of 2X6 lbs. in 40 days. YOU, too, can follow this SAME, SEXSI1ILE plan riyht at home and hr re it is: First nf all so lisht on fatty mrats and sweets. Eat plentifully of lean menu, fish, And for fowl, fresh fruit and vegetables. tr functioning by removal of accumu-waste-ofs take a half toiapoonful Kniarhrn In lint water every morn-in- f. DONT MISS A MOKNINU. Kruschcn imminent Williams' story of death and intrigue in the lives of three families will thrill you. Inspector friends of Tope and Miss Moss, your old detective fiction, finally solve the mystery, but only after enlisting the aid of June Leaford and Clint Jervies, i bed. No More Frayed Edges. TrouLonger Life for the Broom. An sers will not fray along the edge ordinary broom will last longer if if a strip of skirt dipped in boiling soapsuds for a of the turn-u-p binding is sewn just inside, where minute or two each week. they rub on the wearer's shoes. For Tar Stains. Rub tar stains Replace the binding when worn. on cloths with lard, and afterWrap Up Meats. Steaks, pork wards wash out in hot water to and lamb chops, ground meat, which a little liquid ammonia has bacon and other cuts of meat will been added. shrink if stored in the refrigerator unwrapped. Caution. Any spot that is too hot to place your hand is too hot to Save the Crockery. Crockery place a can of kerosene. Ask Yeur Doctor If It Isn't Good Way. Reed EVERY Word Ben Arne - how the valance problem was solved. As my clever young hostess pointed out, this is really a bright idea because the valance and its foundation make a cover for the springs in case they are not the boxed type. With the help of Book 1, you can make many of the things you have been wanting for the house. Book 2 Embroidery and Gifts, is full of ideas for ways to use your spare time in making things for yourself or to sell. Books are 25 cents each. If you order both books, the quilt leaflet illustrating 36 authentic embroidery stitches will be included FREE. Address, Mrs. Spears, 210 S. Desplaines St., Chicago, 111. AROUND th. HOUSE Origin; Favored (1274-1320- Jer-Vie- sober-minde- MATTRESS Uncle Phil ' wee become a man of attain. BINDING will not be so easily broken if you and wring out a spare dish-clot- h Means of Teutonic Name spread it over the draining board before placing the washed china Is by Many on Shining the board. The dishes will not and will need less drying, as slip in few the Adam British favorite a centuries Robert, Indie; Empire water drains into the cloth. name, ie of Teutonic origin and (d. 1792), architect, designer of fur- the means "of shining fame." Origi- niture; Emmet (d. 1803), Irish panating in Germany, it ie used in triot; Morris (d. 1806), signer of the eight languages end hai abtftit 20 Declaration of Independence, foundforme. Ita noted bearer are nu- er of the Bank of Philadelphia, oldmerous, writes Florence A. Cowles est financial institution in the United In the Cleveland Plain Dealer. Statei; Peine (d. 1814), lawyer, Scot), Robert Bruce signer of the Declaration of Indeland' national hero, shall head the pendence; Fulton (d. 1815), first to list. Third of his noble house to apply steam to navigation with Life Is a Parade bear the name, he if celled Libera- practical success. A procession should never get tor of Scotland, of which country he Blair (d. 1828), Scottish astronwee king for the test 23 years of his omer, remembered alio for suggest- boggled up and stand still. When life. Other kings of Scotland have ing the use of lime Juice in the a parade isnt moving, it isnt a British navy as alio borne this name. preventive of parade. Dont get angry and say things Robert Burnes (d. 1790), Scotch curvy; Hoe (d. 1833), inventor of then your anger wont be nopoet, and Robert Browning (d. 1880), the Hoe press; Hoe, grandson of the English poet, are two who deserve foregoing (d. 1909), inventor of the ticed. rotary end multicolor presses; A Limit to Tact special mention. Other great Roberts of the past Southey (d. 1843), poet laureate of Be careful that the tact you are, briefly: Dudley, earl of Leicec-te- r England whose works fill more than practice doesn't develop into plain (d. 1588), whom many believe to 100 volumes; Lee (d. 1870), comma- deceit. of the Confederate have been secretly the husband of nder-in-chief People may be childish, but the Queen Elizabeth; Blake (d. 1657), army. innocence of a child generally is Stevenson (d. 1894), author of English admiral; Herrick (d. 1874), Treasure Island, etc.; Ingersoll lacking. English poet who wrote I had not It Drags Him Down loved thee, dear, so much, loved I (d. 1899), orator end agnostic; Koch A man doesn't improve his own German not honor more"; Boyle (d. 1691), (d. 1910), bacteriologist reputation by spoiling somebody English physicist, discoverer of who discovered the tuberculosis b Boyle's law. relating to pressure of cillus; Peary (d. 1020), discoverer else's. To be free from the maddening gases; Harley, earl of Oxford and of the North Pole; LaFollette (d. Mortimer (d. 1724). British states- 1925), governor of Wisconsin and crowd requires ingenuity and a man. presidential candidate; Hilliard (d. lot of money. Lord Clive (d. 1774), founder of 1927), actor and playwright. Clara's toa But that was better than a year ago. and times were changed. Clint e himself now administered the he and too; shrewdly Trust, SSmuSmT 6YDS.FU0WERED CHNTZ 5&YDS.BLUE CHINTZ ITS IN THE is made risht here in U. S. A. from famous English formula. And this Is IMPORTANT: Kruschcn Is NOT fearmtal. It la net Just eaa salt as earns peeple ignorantly believe. Bather, it'n a blend ef active minerals, which whea dissolved la water make a healthful mineral drink nimllar to effaeUve Spa water where wealthy women hays Sana far yearn. A Jar ef Krasehea easts enly a few cents aa lasts I weeks. Sn. fat buliea grt come sumption I MAKE UP YOUK MIND YOULL STICK to Ike ikon Plan for 2S days and just sea if you don't lose fat and frvl healthier ana younger. Yon can get Krasehea st druggists everywhere. NEWS! Theca ere two classes of In thee columns ovary (1 Interesting stories ebmit. over the world; end (1) the Yes, the advertisements are news, and In many ways the rnoet Important of ell, because they effect other. you more directly and penontlly than any A new and better method of refrigeration Ie devised and you learn about it through advertisements. Improvements are added to automobiles which make Styles change In them safer than ever again advertisements, carry the story. A manufacturer finds clothing and advertisements rush the news to your doorstep. tell to you about the savings. a way to lower the price on his products he advertises You'll find that it pays to follow this news every week. Reading tha advertise, to learn of new comforts meats is the sura way to keep abreast of the world to get foil money' worth for ev and conveniences ... ... |