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Show With Waistline tirred Dress frrsclette popularity 'grffffSmuch S aon be-- H EYE i lode so be-simple little g piquant peaa-bodice full-ski- rt, Lttmakcsy1 Tin "WljO JO tbe with ripP,in look top. to0 bff shirred perfectly CHAPTER I ' Irish-Americ- e, flat-bui- bold-figur- step-by-ste- 30-inc- n h COLDS ly cold-lighti- Call-down- sgrte sat -- absent-mindedl- Ruth Wyeth Spears WNUIBVICE But go on. What'd Drayton To her own office desk, adjoining Oh. a lot of hooey!" Sheila that iff Cecilia Moore, came Sheila with an air of Indifference. Ciracadden. It was half past five he You know, o'clock on s dark and heavy winter Sheila. Cecilia added, as the other day. Most of the girli had gone home; a few were still lingering un- f'rl ,made no immediate reply, 'you hundred times better than der the circles of light dropped by green, dangling lamps above their Miss Hodgson, for instance, or Miss desks. The office was lighted only Grace. Whatd he say? Oh, he didn't say by these little, brilliant cases; outanything gainst my work. He said I took side the night was already black. too much upon Cecilia was the familiar myself." But for heaven's sake, how could type: email, thin, eager, with blue eyes and a very white you take too much upon yourself?" "He said I changed the skin, with a curled cap of black young balr. Her expression was one of gentlemens letters." "Who? Foster's and Foote's. I constant suspicious watchfulness, shrewdness snd mirth. She was an suppose? expert stenographer and typist at "And young Sig's," Sheila admittwenty-threand knew all about air ted. with her sudden, irrational maili and steamer sailings and spe- smile. cial delivery, and most of the firm's "Whats funny about that?" business as well. Cecilia even had What I think of a smattering of Spanish, for Marks fonny, if he ever knewyoung Sig is it, Sheila and Manheim dealt in South Ameri- observed. can table exports: such brands as "You didnt change his letters?" the "Marks iff Quality" fruit pastes, "I certainly did." avocados, bananas, guavas and co"The vice president's son," Ceconuts. and the "Wedding Feast" cilia murmured, pineapple and date specialties. "He could be the vice president's Sheila was younger than her office guardian angel, and if he dictated neighbor, but she looked more than the way he does, Id it. e her twenty-onyears; Cecilia had You should iff knew,' andchange it looks been "going with" Sheila's older like what he done was brother Joe for some years, and the impression that ours ofdid under the recent date two girls, were intimate. Sheila was was but a bluff, taller than Cecilia, and broader of Sheilanothing withmaybe scorn. quoted build; her white forehead was The older girl studied her thoughtbroad, under her loose dark-re- d fully. slender shoulders were hair; her "You might know you'd be fired, broad, even her young, untrained he observed. Why, we send out hands were square and boyish. For the rest, Cecilia was mm boyish than Sheila, for Cecilia was lt and thin, with nervous hands and narrow hips, and Sheila wai rounded and generous In line: wibbh on slender figures. The her white throat flawless, her chin is neckline the line quite deep, a smooth curve and her whole body tm very round. with a sort of warmth and vibrant his dress will be very pretty ide up in cottons light. Even the fringe of coppery hair t percale, calico or gingham for that escaped in a silky film over her use wear, with rows of ricrac forehead, and the little rebel curls sid. And you'll also like a dress that lay outside of the knot on her e this for street and informal neck were unconventional, different, moons, of printed silk or flat human. The touch of her square, tpe. It's one of those easy, be firm band was human, as was the ning styles that youll repeat tenl times. Your pattern fa- look from her round, eternally surShe bad the daisy-whit- e des a helpful p sew prised blue eyes.sometimes skin that goes with art Pattern No. 8634 is designed for blue eyes and reddish hair; her es 12, 14. 16, 18 and 20. Size mouth was large, her teeth were large, her voice was unexpectedly h requires 3 yards of and vibrant Altogether she tterial without nap; 1 bind-i; large yard did not fit Into an office whose man114 yards ricrac. lived only to reduce the young Send your order to The Sewing ager tie Pattern Dept., 140 New women employees to the status of smooth-runnin- g machines, and to Igatfomeiy A ve., San Francisco, nore their individual personalities as hi Patterns 19 cents (in coins much as possible. Jl This girl, introduced as "Min Moore's friend, had been there for Miniature Arm y seven months now, and they bad "Want to ga in for a minate?" been stormy months. The heads did Sheila orged her oa. i military museum in Paris has not understand her. She was the nOection of 18,000 dolls. Each sort of person who is always trying a hundred letters day that aren't about two and a half inches to change thingi; she had a disturb- ai sensible as that one of Sig's. and clad in iff period uniform, ing way of suggesting short-cut"I know ws da e uniforms and weapons aire eliminating details. With the great"You certainly didnt think you Act replicas of those used fa est simplicity and good humor she could change things, Sheila?" Napoleonic wars. The whole threatened the firm fortress of inNo," Sheila admitted, with her id 19,000 was made by one efficiency that had supported the doubtful look followed by the charAlsatian soldier who business of Marks and Manheim for acteristic wide smile. But I Just tut under Napoleon, and spent years and yean. Sheila Cancadden suddenly got mad." she confessed. i rest of his life making mint, had entered the office knowing nothShe bad put on a shabby hat and w soldiers. ing; she knew little now. But she coat, put them on with that dash innocent at her upset everyone; and certainty that is typical of the questions time - honored customs American-borIrish office worker; shrank back into decent shadow. now both the girls were walking toHer expression tonight was rueful, ward the hallway and the elevators. her surprised eyes more surprised helping nature build tw They descended to become than ever. I a part of the uproar and raififenra Cecilia asked, trycrowding of the ing to read her face. to be drawn like two living, streets, Sheila seated herself at her desk, vital threads into the great pattern SSTvStoi moved a paper, looked at the other of the city's afternoon story. To girl unsmllingly and shrugged. both girls this was a commonplace; "Ye good old bounce act, she they felt neither particular interest I stated simply. nor any apprehension as they surAnd suddenly a delightful, broad rendered themselves to the clicking 11 smile lighted her enveloping and hammering and Jarring maface. chine. she Ceel "Dont look like that, Cecilia and Sheila moved through B said. It all rapidly, almost In a "Firedl" Cecilia ejaculated. It was their native air; it had whisper. environed them from babyhood. Joyously. Sheila toughed This was merely a winter evening, "What do you know about that?1 an uninteresting one; Wednesday reihi asked. Cecilias expression night Monday night was apt to be mained horrified. " tinged still with the memories of "Sheila be didn't! relaxation and enjoyment; Sundays did." he ten "I you was definitely anticevening Friday commented, Cecilia '1 dont see," Wednesday evening was had which ipatory. they pftor space during Through Suffering looked at each other; "I must s JJr nothing. The subway smelled of heat cesee that it's so funny.' .thing it h that I don'tthink clothed, units funny, Sheila ment steam, heavily Well. I strong. Long. A tew passengers, bodies. the on proaccent clean faint a with Mid, angry and vituperative, struggled noun. out of the train! sliding metal doors "To be fired? 1 don t carel ae the girls and the home-goin"By old Drayton. mocrowd pushed la Cecilia and Sheila the younger girl added, after a did not expect to be offered seats; ment In a reckless voice. Cecilia saw that she did care, that ska was shocked and humiliated. After an, this was no year to be Jobe were scarce. There fired. were breadlines and unemployment parades downtown. "Wbat'd he say?" Drayton? Sheila was looking into a desk drawer. "My lves she said vaguely. She closed that drawer, opened the one above it Oh, hers they are I" she said. "New purse?" Cecilia asked, disas tracted, innocently Interested, to were brought and glovea pursa tha surface of the desk. Sheila answered, "Ten cento, IGHT 4 Kathleen Norris eATHlB4 NOttS y. sjpiSESH: SSc&SSSS XWbHme otr g they did not wish to be. Getting home was an equally dull performance, whether one stood or sat, and anyway the girls would have genThe boys ire as erously argued. tired as wa are." "Going to tell your mother?" asked Cecilia. Sheila, as if their conversation in the office had been uninterrupted, answered tranquilly: "Not right away. She'll kill me." "I love your purse," Cecilia ..ifl, 1 wish you could have seen the coat I could have gotten for twelve. Twelve, mind you! I'll bet it cost sixty. I had her put it aside for me. It was dark blue with a sort of rolled collar. It was simply grand. Sheila aaid. 8he fell to musing. She hated the word grand, thus misused. The nun who had taught her English had always corrected that way of employing the word. Coats were not grand, movies were not swell, good times were never simply elegant She thought iff meeting Peter when thus attired. Peter what? She did not know his tost name. She could only think of him as Peter. But there was not an hour of her waking day when she did not remember the laughing face he had brought down from his great height close to her own, his hard brown hand cupping her chin, his lips meet ing here for a dizzying, drowning eternity of moonlight and summer night against a dim background of music from the Casino waltz music, and the ceaseless rustle and wish of waves breaking on the and. She was still In the dream when Cecilia said suddenly, 'Coma on I and it was time to Jam their way out through the surge again, and ascend the packed stairs to the icy cold wind and darkness and blowing films of dirty snow on One Hundred and Forty-nint- h Street Both girls were tired from the office day, the assaulting cold wind, and the stupefying, poisonous air of the underground railway. They did not peak as they fought their way about the worst comer iff all, and passed tha crowded bright bakery and the movie entrance, away from the racket of the elevated train. Then, when they were pasting the dark portals of the church, Cecilia made a faint Inclination of her head toward them. ant to go in for a minute?" :11a urged her on.. The wind was bad now, and speaking an effort 1 think Mammall probably make me coma with her to the Mission! she shouted, and Cecilia did not contest They went on for three more blocks, made a last turning, and entered the house that was home for both, and for thirty-eigother families. Above the three chipped brown-ston- e steps from tiie dirty street where garbage cans, newspapers, tins of ashes and bundles of rubbish were all frozen into a permanent fringe on the sidewalk, were double doors framing cold, tiled foyer walla lined with bells and mailboxes. A dimly lighted hallway beyond was completely unfurnished except for worn brown linoleum, and perhaps a dozen shabby baby carriages chained to the iron stairway rails. There were a hundred children in the tenement a third of them not yet old enough to walk. The air within the house was dank and chilly, yet come degrees warmer than that of the streets. It was thick and fetid with the smells of unaired living quarters, defective plumbing, dust human beings, and every sort iff cooking and cleaning. Boiling cabbage, stove ashes, coal moke, hot laundry suds, broiling meat frying eggs, all united with a thousand other domestic scents to give it color; drawn like a red thread through the web of odors was that of carbolic acid. "It's good to get home I Sheila aid, mounting. 'Isn't It?" Cecilia agreed. 'You think you'll never make it Come up and have dinner with us, CeeL" I cant Mamma's alone. And I think its the anniversary of my aunt's death or something. Anyway, she was crying at breakfast Cecilia stopped on the second Sheila mounted on to the floor. fourth, as high as she could ga Msry Cancadden, now cooking dinner, had, in defiance of all theories of housing, budgeting, and tha bearing of young, brought seven children into the world in these it ht three dark rooms and had raised five of them. How it had been done, how the had weathered widowhood, the children's illnesses, poverty, cold, ignorance; from whence their thousand meals apiece per annum bad come, she knew as little as tha mica that hid behind her wood box, or the dirty doves that came to her for crumbs every sooty morning. Her anxieties had rarely gone ahead farther than the next meal, the next month's twenty-seve- n and a half dollars for rent During the war the rent had Jumped to forty-tw- o dollars, and Joa and Marg'ret, mere children, had IN gone stanchly to work to help MamTO FACE CURTAIN ma. But now the rent was lower than It had ever been, and Marg'ret and the second son, Neely, were both married, and times were different The broad, flushed face that was turned with a smile to welcome Sheila had no wrinkles In It, tha Piece x border for teeth were still white. O YOU remember this "Ita a terrible night. Isn't It? she said. Saw Tooth quilt patHer tern? It has been used for the Awful!" Sheila agreed. sound border of many a handsome quilt. mother made the that was her contribution to every It is so effective and so simple conversation, soon or late. Cheer- to piece that it should serve more ful and brave, she yet found much decorative purposes. Here it trims in life to deplore. She turned back kitchen curtains of unbleached to the stove. muslin. It surprises one a little A black-haireyoung man wai to see how modem it looks. Cut buried In a newspaper at the table. a piece of stiff paper in perfect Sheila's brother Joe. She addressed square and then cut diagonally fire-esca- JOIN SQUARES F) d him: through the center. One half will Dollar S ?1 circulation fen Ol this MW bu y apace and plus the favor,, of our Jt,Bevnpapex advertising patrons. J tell you about it ' watching Cecilias fact for approval Ten cental" That's . an. Bummags sals, Sheila explained briefly. "For heaven's sakel Why, irs marvelous," tha older girl admiringly observed. I thought It was nice. I lost my other left It In the pew Sunday. Youd think anybodyd be afraid to teal in church. "You would think theyd be greed, with an afraid. Cecilia wed expression In her bright, shrewd eyes. Ceeffik They both fell to thinking; roused herself with stark denly; tot's eat. Her sister Angela, seventeen and delicate, cama limping in Just before they began, and smiled at Sheila as aha slipped into her chair. Angela had been a "posthumioua child, according to her mother; aha had been born in the very center iff the Infantile paralysis panto, war clouds had gathered about her fatherless little downy head. But Angela radiated sweetness, happiness, pontgnt "Ive been over at Mrs. Burkes, ha explained to Sheila. "Expectin company I" the mother added, with deep significance. Joa put aside his paper, was suddenly with- them. Hia free waa dark. "Joa, Angela said, pushing hia cup toward him, why don't you try Ragan's again? They liked you, when you substituted there three years aga Ragans shut down; I was 'round there this afternoon," Joe answered. Nobody ever spoke roughly to Angela, but he spoke surlily enough, m STRIPS EDGES kitchen curtains. NOTE: Mrs. Spears has pre pared for our readers a set of three Quilt Block Patterns from her favorite Early American designs. Included in the set is the Kaleidoscope, and the Whirlwind. The third is the Ann Rutledge, which Mrs. Spears sketched from an original in the Rutledge Tavern at New Salem, 111., where Abe Lincoln boarded, and where he courted the proprietors daughter, according to the romantic legend so familiar to movie goers. It is an unusual variation of the and rich with historical background. For set of three complete patterns, send 10 cents in coin to Mrs. Spears, Drawer 10, Nine-patc- h, What Counts His Right said the cus"Darling, if you marry me Ill tomer, who was having rather a satisfy your smallest wishes. "And what do you propose to do rough shave, "have you got anabout the big ones? other razor? "Of course, sir, replied the barber. "Why? Skeptical "I want to defend myself. Jailer Visiting hours ere from turn to jour. N etc Prisoner Stop Joking. You Asked to paraphrase the sentence, "She had a singular mode wouldnt let use go waiting. ef address, a hoy wrote: "She wore clothes like a spinster. "I say, barber, She Shoeld Knew "Darling, let us keep our en- gagement a secret "Yes, dear; but I must tell Doris. The horrid creature aaid 1 should never find a man foolish enough to marry me. Almost as Bad The mailer ef the home, exasperated beyond endurance by the cooking, hod the cook up before him. After a long tirade upon bar shortcomings, he pointed to the table. " Look at that piece of bacon Fee earned to your mistress," he stud. "Abwithout looking up. Sheila sent a wide-eye- d glance solutely uneatable And this piece Toe . Felly of Anger about the circle, nodded; Joe had taken myself isnt mads better" Anger always begins with folly, been fired, eh? Joe the incomparaand ends with repentance. ble one Necessary? Two actors who were jealous of Whet do you know? she asked, each other met They exchanged 1 waa fired tills afternoon, tool Suddenly she didn't care. Let the frigid nods. "How are you getting along? kies fall! asked one presently. (TO BE CONTINUED) "Pretty well, replied the other. Still keeping alive. North Carolina Town The first man eyed his rival Is Zoned for Loafing steadily for a second and then Whats your Citizens of Louis burg, N. C., are asked, casually: motive? Inclined to believe that life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness Includes tha privilege of a bit of public leisure. Louisburg has gone to bat for Its citizens and country people who like to stop on the street and talk about politics, the war and hunting. Along a couple of busy streets, the sidewalks have been marked off in three lanes. Center lane to strictly for walking purposes tha two outside lanes are for tha Innocent Idling which to part of tha pleasure of a southern town. A few benches are placed in the loafing space. Under Louisburg a system, a farmer come to town to sell his tobacco to in no danger of being pushed around by hurrying Saturday afternoon crowds. Upon meeting hia friends from tha next county, tha group simply steps over into the loafing zone, and there, protected by tow and manners, they may chin to their hearts content ms MukaU.Up.lmm Want a Man-siz- Up .! iMUKto Breakfast ed a nourishing, easily digestible break- fast to carry you through a snappy winter morning? Then try a steaming, appetizing bowl of CREAM OF THE WEST the world's best cooked wheat cereal. Contains no tough nndigtitible bull fibre. Only the meaty, nourishing and richly flavored center of the golden wheat grain is selected for Cream of iho West. Youll like it. Order si package from your grocer today MONTANA CEREAL CO.r Billings, Mentone In SALT LAKE CITY THE HOTEL Choke ofthe Discriminating Travcler KATHLEEN N0KKIS of life. That longmore expensive-thi- ngs for the finer-a- nd Lovely Sheila Carscadden longed which made her the most talked of girl in the country. There ing started off a train of event! "Irish Eyes," one of Kathleen Norris greatest serials. The are thrills, romance and laughs in situations are ample reasons why Mrs. Norris Is one writer's deft handling of characters and world today. Irish Eyes"sizzles with action from start of the most popular serial writers in the attention from the first chapter through the last. to finish it's a story that will claim your rapt BEGIXS TODAY Ya make your triangle pattern. The you home early, Joe?" Her mother caught her attention size suggested in the sketch by a waving hand, signaled silence. makes a very striking border. If "Leave him be! hey lips said a very strong, bright color is used soundlessly. Sheila raised her dark for the plain triangles, a narrower border in this design will also eyebrows. Bedford Hills, New York. With no further word, but with an make a good showing. elaborately bewildered expression, he went into the middle room, added her hat and coat to the general congestion there, and returned to the kitchen, moving her tired forehead and her silky hair with ten firmly pressed fingers. She sank Into a chair at the table. Come on, Joe!" Sheila said sud"Arent Advertising fin PIECE SQUARES OF TRIANGLES IRISH EYES Your ,an SEW HCW-f- e SERIALLY IX THIS PAPER 400 ROOMS -- 400 BATHS Rates: $2.00 to $4.00 Our $200,000.00 remodeling and refurnishing program has made available tha finest hotel accommodations in tha West AT OUR SAME POPULAR PRICES. CAFETERIA DINING ROOM BUFFET MSS. J. H. WATIRS, PrasUeal ft J. 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