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All the News That’s Fit to Print—Since 1871,
Page 4—Saturday, June 12. 1926.
THE AUSTIN STATESMAN
^MATURE
The Golden
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TONIGHT—At Austin Theaters
By HUBERT MEWHINNEY
On New Lines
FROM STATESMAN FILES
Why Mothers Age '
By J. H. Striebel
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NEW YORK Giant fans waited for it a long time, but
-) finally it happened. Andy Cohen, substitute infielder,
was sent in to pinch hit for Frankie Frisch. He singled.
Then he took his place at second base, and a few minutes
later he threw out a runner at first base and down into
the records went the play—Cohen to Kelly.
Cohen to Kelly I Shades of dad’s day, when baseball
echoed with the famous double-play combination of Tinker
to Evers to Chance! Echoes of Barry to Collins to Mc-
Innis, of Peck to Harris to Judge!
Besball is the American game, but numbered among
the star performers of history are Germans, Swedes,
Frenchmen, Poles, Cubans, Irishmen, Italians and what
not. And now—
Cohen to Kelly! Abie's Irish Rose! Hooray!
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happened on the fateful afternoon that
figures so prominently in court. Fay then
tells the truth and more than establishes
in the nurse’s mind the validity of San-
die’s alibi. a
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THE children of Secretary of the Treasury Andrew Mel-
lon come into the limelight simultaneously.
His lovely daughter Ailsa, known as the world’s richest
heiress, weds a $2500 legation man.
And his son Paul, whom the world only knows as the
best man at Ailsa's wedding, has just been awarded the
McLaughlin prize for distinction in English composition at
Yale university. .
One wonders just how much glory young Paul will reap
for his accomplishment. Someone once opined it was harder
for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven than for a
camel to go through a needle’s eye.
And by the same token, harder is it for a rich man's
son to get credit for work well done than for an elephant
to sit in a tea cup.
“Pull,” says the world. Perhaps there are a few draw-
backs to wealth as well as poverty. But most of us would
not mind trying the drawbacks.
Most
Women
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Have stopped old hygi-
enic methods to assure
real immaculacy. NEW
way, gives true protect
tion-discards like tissue
HEW. modem women but
r employ a new and different
way in hygiene. A way that
supplanta the old-time “sani-
tary pad" with true protection.
Wear filmy frocks and light
things . . . any time. Dance,
motor for hours without doubt
or fear.
It is called “KOTEX” . . .
five times as absorbent as the
• ordinary cotton pad I
Thoroughly StoioriM . . .
thus ending ALL fear of of-
fending.
V Discards as easily as a
” piece of tissue. No laundry.
No embarrassment.
You ask for it without hsi-
tancy at any drug or depart-
ment atore simply by saying
‘KOTEX.” Costs only a few
cents. Proves old ways an
unnecessary risk.
Also I would be just as pleased
it French servants wouldn't go pl-
rooting around among my belong-
ings the moment I set out. Just
for a lark I put a tiny 50 centime
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up t
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for tl
tamot
is a first class match. They are
mostly of that sulphuric kind that
' dawdle along getting into a blase
and then give the room the odor of
a recent pest-house fuhigation.
And after a rather irritating day it
would be o. k. with me if they
wouldn’t put door knobs in the cen-
ter of the door.
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FUNERAL HOME
AMBULANCE
Twe Phone.--8080.631
Gene Cassenas, is mysterfouely
murdered. He has so many enemies
that a half dozen people are
suspected of the deed, and much
time is spent in discovering who is
guilty. The picture has an ending
different from the story's, o that
readers of Roche may still attend
the movie and have something left
to see. ।
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provide that drunken <!
month, in prison, fined
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or cutting circles about one
other.
Sometimes they crawl out
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CONGRESS is a house of business as a rule, and senti-
ment there is usually taken with a grain of salt. Dollars
and cents and votes seem to be the guiding spirits to a
spectator who sits and watches the house in action for a
day. But sometimes stirring drama is enacted in the cradle
of our laws.
So it was the other day when Mrs. John J. Rogers, of
Massachusets, halted a fiery debate with a few soft words.
The house had been plunged into the bitterest kind of
factional strife. There were angry words and profanity.
Members were accusing one another of “trying to Jimmy
Uncle Sam’s strong box for a half a billion dollars,’* and
there were harsh words from all sides. It was a filibuster
on rivers and harbors, and there is no telling how long
these things may last.
The maelstrom was stilled, the fire quenched, the house
changed from a madhouse of howling men to a silent and
respectful body by Mrs. Rogers’ plea.
It was a boy in the gallery for whom she pleaded,
Charles Joseph Bronner, of Cincinnati, who had gone to the
wars and come back without eyes or hands, who had beaten
down the enemy of his handicap and ill health, and was
about to be graduated in law.
“Charles Bronner cannot see us,” Mrs. Rogers began,
“because he lost both of his eyes. He not only gave his
eyes for us, but both hands. As if that were not enough,
last year he had sleeping sickness for three months. In
spite of all that he graduates this month from the Uni-
versity of Maryland as a lawyer. (
“I do not believe any boy has accomplished more for
us than this boy. WHen he was discharged from our service,
he had angeighth grade education. I told him the other
day that I thopght he had had a hard time.
“ ‘No,’ he said, the government has done a great deal
for me in helping me to read and write.’ ’
Charles Bronner has done more for the government
than the government ever could do for him. He has fought
and won a battle in which hundreds of our boys have
fallen, discouraged at the terrible odds against them. He
has achieved another victory for his country.
He stood in the gallery at his mother’s side. There
was nothing more that congress could do for him because
he had fought the good fight himself. To a man they
rose, 400 of them, representatives sent from every corner
of the union to guide the destinies of the United States.
For a moment as they stood there was the silence that
comes only with great moments of emotion. Then broke
a thunder of applause. To the boy and his mother up
there, how sweet it must have sounded—that tribute of
a nation to one of its own.
We know congress can quarrel, can accuse, can bicker
and filibuster, split hairs and waste time. But we know
now what it is good for all of us to know—that congress
has a heart.
P
Ana then I recall their unfailing
little courtesles, their dreadful pov-
erty. the armless, legless and scar-
red reliets of a brave and happy
nation bled White, the beautiful
ntmplieity of their home life and-
. well—I feel pretty much ashamea.
But I want them to keep out of my
' thinas.
AMARILLO is on the map. Amarillo has the greatest
• gas well in the world. Amarillo, according to experts
is the center of the greatest oil field of the future. Amarillo
is to have another million-dollar hotel. Ed Howe, the Kan-
sas philosopher, has a son ht Amarillo, who is the pub-
lisher of its daily newspaper, and the Kansas philosopher,
after a close-up view of Amarillo and surrounding coun-
try, intimates that it is God’s country, although he has
been a resident of the Sunflower state for many years.
Lastly, Amarillo is a Texas city, and there are many Texas
cities fast travelers today that were little hamlets a few
years ago.
old,” ske tells us. "His only food
Hayes Hallan, an untaught pearler
from the Orient, who sets out for
Frisco, and is enticed into weding
the sister of a confidence man. His
bride, however, learns, to love the
manly young, jewel-farmer. She
rescues him from the clutches of
her criminal family, and they begn
life anew on a franker understand-
ing.
JUNE 12, 1911.
Mrs. Harriet Bond goes to Hous-
ton tomorrow to spend the next two
weeks.
Rawlins Colquitt will bo boro to-
morrow to spend a few daye with
Governor and Ure. Colquitt
Miao Gertrude Richter has re-
turned from a viait to her elater,
“I? L C: Marcuse in Fort Worth.
Mr. ad Mrs John D. Claybrook
lave.tomorrow. for Houston to
visit Mr. and Ma. J. W. Parker.
Mr and Nre. J. w. McClendon's
xuzats.are Mrs. Annie McClendon
and Miss Attis McClendon of La-
redo.
, Mrs. M. r- Yelvington of Laredo
Asherete.sper a few weks With
hosdaushter. Mra. A. N. McCallum,
in M^klX Wooten '* viiting
toPWaahnro Rurtenon Friday
set this) and render him paeans
that we still have modest pictures
in Austin.
At the Hancock, for instance,
Leatrice Joy and Robert Ames are
shyly honeymooning in “The Wed-
ding Song," with a decorum guar-
anteed not to strain the scruples
of the tenderest-minded caretaker
legs.
It transforms to the adult state in
a paper-like cocoon which it spins
on some object outside of the water,
and after reposing in this about a
month, emerges as an adult.
They winter deep in the water,
but as they seem to • begrudge this
wasted time, only a little mild
weather will entice'them out for a
few dances.
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> a batch of shirts. It
mantie when I returned
An Arthur Somers Roche mystery
starrina Irene Rich and
CUva Brook. Tha acene i iAld |n
the rlotoua winter reaorta of
Cutieura
ToiletTrio
for
for me, I’m nobody at all, of course,. .J. uu,- ..... wU20, 220.
but—but I’m young too, and I havet band bread crumbs .soaked in milk,
to work for my living. Stupid as
these conventions are, they exist.
Dear Miss Ffrench has reminded
- slender with a many-segmented
body, each segment with a pair of
• BROCADED GEORGETTE.
Brocaded georgette crepe. in pas-
tel tone., with fairly email, con-
servative pattern, is shown for
evening gowns. .
Grace and pet crow.
It is all a matter of how you go
about it in making friends with
birds and animals. Jim Crow is
one of the easiest friends to make it
you tackle the job right and the
story that Grace F. Hadley writes
in to us is interesting enough to
repeat.
“Jimmy Crow was brought from
the country when only a few days
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Well, is this sipposed to be A
smile? Gladdis sed, and pop sed
No, its meerly my features indulg-
ing in an innocent game of tag
Do you wunt my opinion, pop?
i sed.
And I went and looked over Glad- (• b (
dises shoulder saying, O I dont " "
know,, think ia reckonise who they
was if enybody told me.
nXee.rods &lve me those things,
pop sed. And he tore them up
saying. Now, let posterity fits it
Cokemune themsefves as to wat 1
.And we keep on eating dinnr be.
‘Hell Bent for Heaven’
Has Young Irish Actor
HOLLYWOOD, June 11.—When
11 Gardner Jamen, the whimsical,
tow-headed Irish lad who is being
applauded for his role of “Rufe" in
the picture, “Hell Bent for Heaven.”
first felt the gravitational pull of
Hollywood; he was standing on the
New York docks. Rich he was n
imagination and a yearning to grace
the screen, but poor in worldly
goods, Indeed penniless.
He signed as coal hand on the
first vessel leaving for Los Angeles
and his experiences in the stoke-
hold. as he laconically remarks. -
would justify the paraphrase "Hell (D •
bent for Hollywood.” " "
No signs or portents marked his
arrival in the movie mecca. Even-
tually he found he had 10 cents to
spare for a ride to the studio where
Commodore J. Stuart Blacton was
_________________ -_______their stuff when Broadway is sn-
ot the youth. Ames has the role of crystaled with icicles. One of these.
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ONT HERE ,) MADAM -We
oeesses for (D0N6ERE
We was eating dinnir today, and
pop sed. Walk heers 1 proofs from
the fotografer, wich one shall I give
the term to use in their booklet?
And he took 3 red picktures ot
hlmsel tout of an envelope and
handed them to ma, saying, Well, I
dredded to take the plunge, but wen
I finely got the camera face to face
I looked it termly In the eye and
told it to shoot. Thats me all over, (
wen it comes to the pinch I can
allways be depended on, and I Hat-
ter myself that those picktures are
prutty good, he sed.
You may flatter yourself but the
picktures dont ma sed. My good-
niss wat was the ideer of making
sutch abnormal faces? she sed.
Lets have a look at them, my sls-
ter Gladdis sed.
* Yes, lets, have a consensus of
opinino for Peet sake pop sed. And
Gladdis started to lock at the 5
picktures saying. Well, in my
opinion there is very little to
choose between them.
O, you think their all good, pop
sed.
They may be good of somebody
but they dont look any more like
you than I do, Gladdis sod.
But confound it, your sipposed to
sod "ke me, heaven help me. pop
There was a time when there
were certain subjects too tender,
too sacred, and too indelicate for
discussion in the public prints.
There was a time when certain
matters 'were reserved for private
consideration, and were never bared
to the public gaze in the cold, grey
light of the cinema.
Sirs, that time has left us, and no
weeping will bring it back. No
manner of pleading, ho impassionate
appeal to the traditions of our
fathers, no lisping protest from the
tongue of the tender-minded, no
roseate blush on the cheek of the
modest maiden—shall avail to call
it back to us. Warner Brothers
have announced the forthcoming
production of “What Every Girl
Should Know.” Draw the shades.
Ludowie, and let us weep for the
departed days of yore.
Pistols Carried in
First Grid Battle
GEORGETOWN, Ky.. June 12-
Any football player found with fi-e-
arms was compelled to leave the
game under a ruling made by 1e
referee in the first Interconleki is
football game in which a Geor -
town college eleven ever p r-
tieipated.
The game was stopped and a
search made of all players of h th
sides. Two players were found w‛th
Ptols and were upled off the grid-
it terrible! It's been
BY ARTHUR N. RACK.
President, The American Nature
Association.
Anyone who has walked by the
banks of a brook in spring or
summer has seen those shiny black
beetles darting swiftly about on
the surface of the water, chasing
exactly as turtles do. If we dia-
turb them too much they diva be- Em
neath the surface, carrying with =e
them bubbles of Air held under the
tips of their wing-covers for the »=
purpose of breathing while sub- ,
The Editor's Opinion
so much
INTRIQUINQ NAMES.
Two new shades of pink, known
as “Trianon" and "Recamlet."
slightly on the order of ashes of
roses, are being exploited in Faria
PARIS, June 11—I journeyed
across the Seine to the Lett Bank
this evening sip an aperitt At
The Dome in the heart of the Iatin
quarter. Eiffel Tower flashed the
curley-cued ad. for the Citroen
the fivvr «* France. Paris con-
elders it a commercial vulgarity
At too’ little marble topped
tables on the terra... of Th. Dome
w" th. usual seedy crowd—hun-
gry looking, long haired artists
with wide black hats or Basque
cans girls in smocks, skinny
models and th. Old bearded men
mnd"havenwastea the years in tu-
tile ettort to paint__ ___
‘ All try to lot* "arty. Some-
nw to me they look rather fool-
how “ArtSs"no allled with filth
and even a house painter shaves
and wears clean linen when he
ane, out in public. Thousands
Eve lived in the Latin Quarter
and emerged decent men and
But it geems to me the great ma-
ority getnowhere. They become
ipostzes of free love, drunkard, and
drux addicts and Art is only a
gna tor their poverty—a, poseur’s
excuse to cadge drinks, defy con-
ventions and live without honest
lief when the law had freed him
from the frivolous, faithless one who
had spoiled nearly eight years of his
life. Instead, he had never felt so
suicidally wretched. .
He would have liked to cut loose
from England that same night to
go somewhere far away, It didn't
matter where. But he could not,
would not leave Fay, whose illness
added a good weight to his burden
of gloom. He must go home as
usual, to see the child before her
bedtime. {
Nina was with him in the car
which his chauffeur brought to the
law courts, and which be chose to
drive himself, sending the chauf-
feur home by motor bus, Nina’s
company was soothing, though he
had not craved it She had asked
him to take her, pleading as an ex-
cuse that she was so exhausted as
to be almost ill.
“I need a FRIEND with me,” she
said, "and I think, Sir Hugh, you’re
in a mood to need one too.”
“Perhaps,” he answered, and as
she sat beside him, her shoulder
almost touching his, he felt the
magnetism of what he fancied was
her sympathy.
•“Couldn't we drive on and on,
just for a little while, and not go
home quite yet?” Nina asked. “The
air feels so heavenly—it’s making
me all over new, after this terrible
day. B t how selfish of me to call
JUNE 12, 1901.
The Austin District Medical so-
ciety will hold tie semi-annual
meeting at the Elk hall next Thurs-
day apd Friday.
Mrs. T. P. Meyer and family left
yesterday for a camping trip at
Kingsland.
Hon. O. B. Colquitt of Terrell is
in the city.
Miss Lula E. Cravens is in
Houston visiting friends. .
‘Col G. V. Hardy of the Third
Infantry, T. V. G., has resigned his
commission. . Col Hardy la a
brother of the ex-secretary of state.
George B. Smith, for many years
prominent in business circles in
Austin, pow located in Houston, is
visiting in the city.
George Hervey Church of New
York again has brought suit against
the city for interest on another
batch of water and light bonds held
by him.
Lost: Rubber tire from phaeton.
Return to Eclipse stables and got
reward.
Dur
’ tourn
junio
Am Quick
W in St!
ed ribbon is used very
on the larse bUck milan
FVP Istenea many hour, to th.tr
tiresome blather and back of It all .
Is the congenital or acquired laz-
neaa of our American hobo. And
the hobo doea not claim to be any-
thing but what he la. It ia a
weakly headline in the Paria presa:
"Latin Quarter Girl Abandon.
Baby.” '
But The Dome I. an interestins
spot to watch crowd.. Acro». the
■treat ia The Rotonda, a rival .ide-
walk cate When the artist wear,
out bis credit at one he transters
his allegiance to the other, scores
of Greenwich Villager, are on pa-
rade clutching at the same old
dream. ‛
A small percentage of tha wast-
rels are Americans. They come
from everywhere — Russia, Eng-
land, China and just now there is
a character known as Ty-hoo, an
Eskimo. Prices on the Left Bank
are about half what they are on the
SUMMER LINGERIE.
Checked and striped voile are
very practical for summer lingerfe.
Voile launders beautifully and is
much softer and more sheer than
most cotton products.
Hancock: Leatrice Joy and Robert Amec in'“The Wedding
Song.” ‛
Queen: Irene Rich and Clive Brook in “The Pleasure Buyers."
Majestic: Aileen Pringle and Lowell Sherman in "The Wilder-
necc Woman.”
Crescent: Ricardo Cortex and Greta Garbo in “Torrent."
Grand Central: Tom Mix in "The Lucky Horseshoe.”
Many times during the day he was
Uken out of thae box and exer-
deed his wings and legs.
“A few days more and he was
able to hop on the edge of the box
unassisted. Each^day he ventured
a little farther, flyig back many
times and seeming to try to te’l us
where he had been. -
“On rainy days Jim was busy
playing with toys, among them a
rubber ball. He would bring bones
and food to play with. He loved
to hide things. Jim would pull the
corner of a rug back with his bill,
stand on the rug until he put the
article under, then step off and let
the corner flop back. *
“He would follow us down the
street, walking on the pavement'
just behind us or at our sid. When
I drove, he would fly just behind
the car, alongside or over the hood.
“If a tie or a shoe string were
handy, Jim did enjoy untieing them.
Candy he would take from the lips
end never once touch the mouth.
These are only a few of Jim’s tricks.
“But on wash day he had to
amuse himself alone, shut up in the
basement. This peeved him very
much, but it was a case of have-to,
or do the washing over. Left out,
he would take the pine out as fast
as one could put them on the
clothes.
“He would catch on the garments
that hung close to the grass with
his bill and feet and swing mer-
rily for several minutes. So it was
the basement for JIm"on Mondays.”
Send a stamped addressed en-
velope and questions of fact having
to do with Nature will be answered
by the consulting staff of Nature
Magazine of Washington through
arrangements made by this paper.
as an indication of honesty. It
didn’t occur to them it was a give
away for their snooping.
Every country has a certain look
for foreigners. It is Intangible, of
course, but you feel IL The French
look is often a polite sort of sneer.
They resent your prosperity while
welcoming our money. With the
budding grouch that started with
the insipid chicory coffee at break-
fast I passed a group on Boulevard
des Capucines. They looked me
over with that cold appraisal and
begun chattering like a cage of sick
parrots. I turned to them. “Were
you frogs discussing me?” I in-
quired in my host baritone. I sup-
pose I know they couldn’t under-
stand or I would have lacked such
bravpry. Still the way I feel to-
night some Frenchman is going to (
got a high class Yankee smack on
the jaw.
Vincente Blasco Ibanez, puissant
novelist of the Hispanic peninsula,
appears at the Crescent in “Tor-
rent,” a tale in which the passions
run riot, but which is, nevertheless,
not a melodramatic movie. There
are touches of very pretty romance
scattered through the love story cf
the village youth and the girl who
becomes an operatic star, and there
is a unifying thread of mild cyni-
cism and. world-weariness running
through the whole that is gratifying
to such as like truth-with their art.
e e e
I have not yet eyed tha sinister
I moiety of "The Wilderness Woman”
at the Majestic, and am still una-
ware what relation the events de-
picted on the right half of the
screen bear to the remainder of the
story. I do not doubt, however, that
the relation is close and intimate,
the two sides of the picture having
been filmed at the same time and
concurrently.
Dwight Brown plays his last pro-
grams at the Majestic today and
tonight. 'Being so sleepy that I do
not expect to wake before Monday
noon, once I have sought the em-
braces of slumber, I shall probably
not see him again. If you are
listening in on this, Mr. Brown, I
bid you goodbye and a pleasant
journey, and thank you for your
music—which music is the best
ping that has happened around
here in a long time.
Hired Teacher By
Weight In California
ETNA, Cal., June lf\—Weight—
rather, the lack of it—is one of the
qualifications for teaching in the
Salmon River school of Northern
California.
On several occasions it has been
the governing factor in the choice
of a teacher. Applicants must give
the figure at which they tip the
scales and too much avoirupoise
automatically stamps the applica-
tion “unsatisfactory.”
The reason is that the school is
situated in the mountains far from
a road. Going or coming the trip
must be made across snow-covered
divides -on muleback. Experience
hag proven to the satisfaction of
both guide and mule that heavy
teachers are a source of truble so
the board adopted the policy of en-
gaging only lightweights.
Carrying a live load of about 180
pounds, the mule can get along
without breaking through the snow
crusts, but with a heavy, unskilled
rider he flounders.
THI LEADING CHARACTER
Sir Hugh Ffrench, wealthy English
nobleman, who realizes that the widening
rife between himself and his beautiful
American wife. Sandie, to due to two
causes. First Sir Hugh views with dis-
favor her pachant for seemingly herm-
less flirtatiofta end secondiy, bar callous
treatment except on rare occasions of
their seven-year-old daughter. Fay, which
• irritates him tremendously. Finally Sir
Hugh, with tha co-operation of his sister,
Mary Ffrench, obtains a new governess
for little Fay in the person of Nina
Dolarro, an entrancing, seemingly inno-
cent young person of somewhat obacure
origin. In spite of the fact that she to
vouched for by the austere Mary—when
Derek Leavenworth, a sleek and sly ad-
mirer of Bandie's recognises her as a
world roving adventuress and enters into a
secret agreement with her whereby the
two, are to deliberately break up the
Ffrench home—the reader can imagine
that the scheming Nina to do fit guardian
for the little girl.
Miss Dolarro soon finds an opportunity
to further her own and Leavenworth's
interests by taking advantage of the fact
that Bandie, after a squabble with Hugh
baa left home with Fay. By dexterous
manoeuvering she manages to place Derek
and Sandie in a compromising situation;
soon after, in accordance with her scheme,
sho persuades the child to return home
with her. There Nina drugs the child and
later inveigles Fay into thinking that the
events she remembered as part of the day’s
adventures did not really happen and were
merely the result of her delirium. Nina
then loses no time in giving Sir Hugh In-
formation that leads him to think be has
sufficient evidence at his command to sue
for divorce. Accordingly an action to be-
gun and the terrified Bandie to balled into
court to face unsavory charges—charges
only made possible by Nina’s persistant
plotting and Derek’s all too willing co
operation. As the case proceeds it be-
comes more and more evident that Handle’s
defense of trumped-up charges to weak
and that her chance of winning to slim.
The inevitable happens. Hugh obtains his
decree, and Derek’s sister urges Handle to
accert her brother's offer of marriage.
As Faya illness continues Hugh decides
to. have « special nurse for her to relieve
Nina of arduous duties. Dorothy M in tern,
the girl selected, happens to be in love
with a young man to whom she has been
given Eo0d reason to suspect NinacDo-
larro bears an amorous rerationshp. After
she arrives in the Ffrench household the
merged.
Though they- seldom are seen to
open their wings, they fly well
when they desire, first climbing out
of the water to get a flying start,
and traveling swiftly from one
pool to another.
The two hinder pairs of legs are
developed as short paddles, while
the long powerful front pair ap-
parently assist them in their gyra-
tions.
The food of the whirligig consists
chiefly of small insects which fall
into the water, in the pursuit of
these, and probably also in all its
activities, it is aided by the pe-
culiar structure of its eyes. These
are divided at the water surface
into two parts, the lower apparent-
ly constructed for use in water,
and the upper for air vision, a
development which parallels the
condition found in the eyes of cer-
tain surface-swimming fishes.
The eggs of this beetle are de-
posited on the stems of water plants
and the young larvae are long and
I
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Meanwhile, let us fire incense to
Huitzilopochtli (name fearful to the
eye of the printer who will have to
me of them. I wouldn't have lis-
tened if Nurse Mintern weren’t as
useful to Fay now as I could be.
But'I have my reputation to think
of. I daren’t risk being talked
about more than—more than I
have been already.”
MONDAY—Hugh Falls in the
“I don't think of you as an out-
sider," Hugh said kindly. “You’ve
become a much valued member of
my family. You know that. Your
wonderful devotion to Fay--
"Ah, I could never do half enough
for either of you!” Nina sighed.
“And now it’s all over! That’s one
thing I have to talk about before
we get home. I- have to tell you
that the dear place can no longer
be ‘home’ for me. Luckily Nurse
Mintern is very good with Fay. The
sweet little one doesn't a governess
while she’s weak and unable to work
at her studies. I'm not needed sny
-Indeea you ARE needed!” broke
in Ffrench. startled- “Of course
you must stay. I—”
“Perhaps you don’t quite realize,
dear Sir Hugh,” Nina said, “that
things are changed from tonight
on. You are no longer a married
man. You’re young and free. As
preparing to make “The Happy
Warrior.”
Out of 200 applicants he was se-
lected to play the juvenile character
part of “Lord Rollo.” Since then
he has appeared in eight produc-
tions with Increasing repute and
promise, his present role heingwith
Richard Barthelmess in "The Ama-
teur Gentleman.”
James, sensitive artist and stub-
born optimist, has as background
and paving for his picture endeav-
ors. a career as a brilliant child
actor. He was for 10 years under
contract to the Shuberts, his ini-
tial stage appearance being with an
George Alias in “Disraeli.” Tn seven (
of his 28 child parts he treated the "
role assigned him.
During the intervening period the
young Irish player succumbed to
the sea, circling the world twice as
cabin-boy, deck hand and third
mate.
Dorothy kissed the little white
face.
"You soon will be well again, if
I can do anything to make you so!”
she exclaimed. A genuine tender-
ness for the child sivept over her.
She had begun her investigations
entirely through her wish to “find
the Dolarro woman out” Now,
however, she had another motive,
almost equally strong.
“If Miss Dolarro’d been mistaken,
and you HAD gone to your mother
after -all, you would have known
what you did with that letter,” the
nurse said. “Then, if it had ex-
isted, it could have been found.”
“Oh, the letter!” echoed Fay.
“Why, I DO know what I did with
it—in the dream. I pinned it inside
my dress, between the cloth part
and the silk lining.”
Dorothy- realized that, if such a
letter, had been returned to Lady
Ffrench, it would have been pro-
duced in court as some sort of
proof that she had at least wished
to have her child with her in ex-
ile. Of course, the other side would
have said that it was “manufac-
tured evidence,” and it might not
have helped much.
“Do you remember what dress
you wore—in the dream T' she
catechised.
Fay nodded, and described the
dress.
“You’ve got such a lot of dresses”
smiled Dorothy. “Let’s have a look
in the wardrobe and see if it ex-
ists—shall we?”
Fay was pleased with the idea. #
“Let’s!” she agreed.
There, at the back of the ward-
robe, behind all the other frocks,
was one that answered the descrip-
tion. Dorothy could quite under-
stand Nina’s hiding it, but it seem-
ed too good to be true that she
hadn’t discovered and removed the
letter.
No! No! She had it! There was
a folded bit of paper pinned Inside
the silk lining with a small safety
pin! Probably Fay hadn’t men-
tioned the letter to Miss Dolarro,
and so in her hurry it had not oc-
curred to the governess to search.
With fingers that trembled, Dor-
othy took out the pin. In her hand
was an envelope. While Fay watch-
ed with anxious eyes, the nurse
took out the letter within and read.
For a moment her head swam.
But she was sharp wRted beyond
the average, and her reticence
masked detective instincts. The
whole plot became clear to her.
With this letter, with Fay’s inge-
nious story, and the analysis of that
tonic (If It turned out as she ex-
pected) she would hold Nina Do-
larro in the hollow of her hand.
A wicked woman, who deserved
no mercy, and would get none from
her.
Outstanding Events
At Austin Churches
«CoDs FOOLS,» subsect ot
wM.cermon . by Lawrence H.
Whartom,, paetor ot Universft
Presbyterian church, Sunday ive- ;
ning.
Rev.C.8. Wright, presiding el-
er, delfvers sermon at Hyde
Park Methodist church Sunday
morning.
.Pr,Willam.E. Harrison, pastor
fe.First. Presbyterta.n church,
• SA. .delivers memotial adress
to Odd Fellows at chureh Sunday
evening.
Q"Why the World is Out of
Lr,nL subject of sermon by Rev.
W. F Bryan. First Methodist
church, Sunday evening. I
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