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53 WHAT HAS GONE BEFORE ' Phillip Edison is host at a night-club party to his just re cently divorced wife and Oliver ffewell, Bportsmaa aad Pop Juaa. Edisoa presumes that Sewell and the divorcee are to be married. NOW GO OX WITH THE STORY CHAPTER III. Edison repaired to the lounge, decorated excessively in the Louis XV period as conceived by a real : estate entrepreneur from the Bronx. He lit a cigarette in his im patience and paced op and down the too-thick rug. Finally, weary, .he slumped into a gilt armchair and tried to relax, but he couldn't. He kept his head turned to the entrance, watching for ' Sewell to be ushered in through the bronze door. A half hoar passed. Then an hour. - Suddenly the telephone opera tor raced into the lounge. "Yon wanted to see Mr. Sewell, air?" He was obviously laboring tinder considerable excitement, and he did not wait for a reply. "Mr. Sewell's been murdered!" "Murdered!" "Yes sir!" The operator swal lowed. "I've just telephoned the police. Are you a friend of bis?" Edison paused. -Why yes," he replied finally. THK MURDER Jnspector Marx was that type of office who, in mystery plays, is made the butt of ridicule. His grammar was primitive, his con versation was inelegant, ho had no scintillating powers of deduc tion to present with the flare of the-ahowman. In short, his gen eral" equipment fitted him for the police station rather than the stage, which, upon due reflection, is not as incongruous as it may seem. Ten minutes after the news of Sewell's violent end was telephon ed to headquarters, it was relay ed to Marx's unpretentious flat in the East Nineties. "Robbery?" demanded the In spector of Detective Sergeant Car raway, who was telephoning from Sewell's flat. "No. Not a sign of it. Looks like straight murder." "All right. I'll be up." Marx put down the telephone, and his big red face seemed sour with displeasure. "What's up. prerious?" de manded Mrs. Marx, who was big and fat and housewifely. "Killing." "Who?" Mrs. Marx displayed the usual interest of a spouse in her husband's labor. "One of those damn society murders." Marx reached for his collar (size seventeen) discarded during an informal but stout din ner, and then swore at a recal citrant stud. "Fellow named Sew- vii ... uriage piayer ... mucay- mucky-muck ..." "Oh, It'll go big in the papers." "Yea," grunted Marx. "It'll go big in the papers. They'll be yell ing for my scalp!" "Oh, I don't know, honey. You may get a good break on it." "A good break on a society murder? Show me one of them where we did anything with It. Why, we're helpless. Those socie ty people can't be dragged "Sown to headquarters on suspicion. You RIGHT LIVING BRINGS FINANCIAL DIVIDENDS Many of Those Illnesses Which are a Drag on the Family Income Can Be Prevented by Practicing Simple Hygiene, Says Dr. Copeland By 110 YAL S. COPELAND, M. D. United States Senator from New York. Former Commistioner of Health, New York City. HAVE you thought about the high cost of being sick? We know about the high cost of living. We know about the high cost of dying. But in many ways there are few things more dis tressing than the high cost of illness. it 'am m MPELANO. ystem crowded with sufferers. uti twr&fcnru of course we hear of more sickness la the citiea But where ia there a household in the whole of North America where there is not sickness almost every week? Illness is the cause of great economic distress, it saps the savings of many a family. A National Committee oa Cost of Medical Care has been organ ised. The New York City Depart- snent oc Health baa undertaken to collect "data from about 4 OS New York families who can supply a month-by-month record of aO Illnesses among- their members.' giving "all xpenses for physician's fea. pre scriptions, household remedies. drus gist supplies, hospital expenses and the tike." - We do not need an official report to realize what a burden sickness ia. Mot alone does tt take a lot of money but also the disturbance of the routine of the home and the anxiety of heart and mind cannot fee disregarded. I have no doubt that as a result at this research the facta win be brought home more vividly than ever before. X pray that ways and eoeana can be found te deal with the immediate problems of sic knee. But after an tt comes back to this, goes it not? The most sensible plan that can be devised is to impress en every single tadlvldual the bnpoo tanoe ejf health. The roles of right living and simple hygiene are. In the toft - analysis, the surest remedy, When we can get every person ta the ctvUited world to live so sanely that he will avoid the causes of pre ventable disease, then much of the economle dlstresa will disappear. ) Answers to Health Queries "IN DOUBT." . Q. What should 9 gin aged crteen, tour teet Aoche tall, weigh? . - tv How can I grow taOert y SAMUEL gotta treat 'em with kid gloves. It aint like a regular killing, where yon don't know where you're at" Marx no wtugged at bis coaL He believed, that crime was the exclusive business of the under world, and was always annoyed when amateurs forced themselves on the attention of the police. Ia the underworld there Vere known criminals and stool pig eons. Every crime had its guide poets. Bat ia these amateur af fairs of the emotions a man work ed behind a curtain. In the street, Marx plunged in to the subway and was deposited a few doors from the skyscraper apartment where Sewell made his home. A uniformed policeman greeted him. "Sergeant Carraway and some detectives are upstairs. The As sistant Medical Examiner is com ing soon, sir." Marx nodded. ' "Keep the reporters out," he commanded. Marx distrusted re porters. "And keep all the guys that work in the building here. Nobody's to leave." The officer saluted. Marx step ped into the elevator cage. A sal low youth of twenty-four was his pilot, and 'under his nervous hands the cage literally leaped to the twenty-sixth and top-most story. There was, Marx found, only ana-apartment on the floor, and that was Sewell's. It was an ex traordinary apartment, designed by an extraordinary man, for Sew ell had personally supervised its construction. Marx entered from the elevator through a stout green door, and down a long corridor, passing a kitchen, a butler's pantry, and a butler's bedroom and bath. Then Marx found himself in the huge living room of a duplex apart ment, with a miniature minstrel gallery gracing one side - of it. Sewell had covered the four walls of this giant room with clear mir rors that flashed into Marx's be wildered eyes, and made him blink. From this room of mirrors, through a narrow door, you came upon a terraced garden, wide enough to hold several chairs, a table and a garden lounge. Here one could look out upon a city of lights and stone, and a sky that was not quite so black and smudg ed and mottled as it appeared from the streets below. Returning to the mirrored room, you mounted the walnut stairway to the gallery, and found there a master bedroom and bath. The bedroom bad four separate closets, which struck the practical minded Marx as wasteful luxury. It was in the room of mirrors that Sewell was found. He was seated in a low blue and white chair, his head, bent, hands fold ed, facing the mirror of the left wall. He was dressed for dinner, and the blood on his shirt bosom told Marx he had been shot through the heart. As Marx sur veyed him, he had an uneasy feeling that other dead men were in the room for the mirrors ech oed the murder from each wall. Marx moved nearer to Sewell. He was struck by the unusual It is amazing what percentage of the popula tion is spending its time in the sick bed. The hospitals of a great city, for instance of New York, are crowded all the, time. It -ianot only physical sickness with which we have to deaL More hospital beds in the United States are occupied by mental cases than by all other sick combined. I have observed with great interest that a memorial is being planned to the late Dr. Thomas William Salmon, who waa distinguished ia the field of mental hygiene. As part of the campaign it ia being pointed out how prevalent the mental diseases really are. Every clinic and hospital devoted to the diseases of the brain and nervous a. She should welsh about 106 pounds. 1 -Ton have five years more in which to grow. at. O. Q. What should a girt weigh who Is U years old and I ft. 4 Ins. tall 1. How can I lose weight? Aj Tor your age and height yoa should weigh about 111 pounds. -1. Weight reduction la chiefly a matter of self -control as regards the diet. n e e J. A. B. a 1 have recently had aa operation tor the removal of ton sQs and adenoids and since then my hair has bean coming out by the handful ia this due to the ether? What remedy Is advisable ta this ? ----- : - - A This la aot annanaV the etata of the health has a moat decided bearing oa the condition of both hair and scalp. Keep up the health and la addition to careful shampoo bag use a good, stimulating hair teste, -. .- a ... -.. v-. - .4 Hre. C.' Q. What do yoa sutrlse for tired faebn and 1 have aa Boaay feaUna wader the right abort rib, whole right aide Is eoref v ejaaassafa "" ". Aw See' year actor tor aa a- amlnatlon. SPEVACK Cala of the stfll face. It waa as If the man had been murdered ia big sleep. "Pretty, ain't It?" breathed Carraway, who stood behind Marx. "Yea," drawled Marx. "Now let's see . . . " He paused reflect ively. "Who found him!" "His butler, valet or whatcha call him. Russian, or something." "Where is he?" "Jim!" Carraway bawled to one. or the detectives. "Bring in the slob!" The detectives brought Sewell's sole servant from the corridor in to the room. He was a little over forty, with high cheekbones, and rather small, black eyes. He car ried himself well; not so much with the faintly subservient man ner of the good domestic as a man who had known wealth. What's your name?" growled Marx. "Ivan Stanupin." 'Good." One of the detectives grinned. "I know nothing nothing at all," the butler protested. "You found him, didn't you!" "Yes." "When." "At two o'clock. I have already told the gentlemen. He gave me the evening off. He was going to a party. And I went to Elizabeth town where I have my friends, and I did not come home until two o'clock. Then I opened the door and put on the light, and I am thinking of nothing, and I go into this room when " The butler turned to look at the seated corpse, and paused. "You found him in this chair?" "Yes. So I go to the elevator and make excitement, and that is all I know." "Mmm. . . . Was this your I night off?" "No, sir, Mr. Sewell asked me POLLY AND HER PALS TILL1E, THE TOILER I'M .-tmongt My VACATION NEXT WEEK. TiLUE - WOULDN'T IT RE COUL "THEN, I 1- j i. I j J ) I r v .j - i ... kt. 1 1 LITTLE ANNIE ROONEY rtLEUSW RI6WT HOME, AND FINISM MV HOME-WORK, AMD THEN GOME OUT, AND PLAV WITH THE lODSk UKCTIL SUPPER - TOOTS AND CASPER r HE. ELECTION tarjgt PPCWbEMT CP TH6oocyraiow CLUBt5Wa.TEt GASPER.ANb COLOALHOOFCRj ATHiftDMAM v Dr2pPoTCb KV MOT BE4cr EJECTED MB- - I to take the might off.-. . "Did he oftea ask yea to take the night off!" "Yea." "Why?" ' "I do aot know." "How long have yoa been with him!" "Six months." . "Where were yoa before?" "Russia." "Mmm. . . . What did you do In Russia?" - "I was an officer la the Guardg before the revolution." The man seemed a little more certain of himself then. Marx looking at him could believe he had been a sol dier. "Now, listen," began Marx, tak ing oat a cheap cigar and light ing It, "was there anything taken that you know of?" "I do not know," the butler waved bis hands. , "Was the place out of order, any?" snapped Marx. "No. Just like always." "You found him sitting in his chair?" "Yes." "Dead?" "Yes." "When did you leave the house?" "At six o'clock." "And you came back at two?" "Yea, sir." "So he was murdered between six and two. ha?" "I do tot know." "No. You don't seem to know a helluva lot." Marx glared at him. The butler puzzled him "You got no Idea where he J went?" "No, sir." "You know who his friends are, don't you?" "No, sir. He never told me." "Oh he didn't!" Marx sneer ed. 'I suppose nobody ever called on him, did they?" "Yes sir. They did." "And when they called they never gave you their names did they?" Marx was obviously trying to trip the butler. "No, sir. They didn't." "They didn't? Say who were his visitors all women?" "Yes, sir. All women." (To be continued tomorrow) "StMRL-V Marvelous HAVE To "TO C3TE.T My rOME IF bo LITTLE and V I j . AOlBOSTOHrj p- rWEVouS iggS?? MUSIC .sJ GEME&4L, BUT jjf ft ELMER ? KAVfcy Tl meTwiTH THE: I Pn7 SAY AS I CRWES IT Hi U. EJr ITS THIS HERECITJ tAGV Ij mJ vV " I LJ lr-K 6REAT MISTAKE ' Vl f "ttXJ MOST Be. CRATV -TH -fT PCQ. 1 1 X HPa UOVE "TH. I lCA5PER V HB ONE OF MY A! If NT THAT -isTl tvVS5T TO BUY A -TBlOfTXe, I BABT.TOOTC f , AUVA WA4TED A Jf RATHER OOT, MOST VALUABLE. ST S I -Vg V F0 BUTTERCUP, A I'M 6rOiN6 TO J TRlCYCtB- WHEN I Wft 1 THINK I EMPLOYEES! ( CAMPER? MY 1-. , , . ) CA-SPERi HB CAli-T ( J EXPPB3 tl TO A BOY BUT I rSvERMAEi 31 1 HB 0RK i WOULtiNT CAY - 7 5 A L-rr - : GOOD-NIGHT STORIES - By 12ix -JXatO The Shadow- CbOdrea, DodgJag the San, Move Into a Hovjae of Cards "I wish," said Yam. "that we dint have ao mack sunshine." MU, Flor. Hanld and Yam, the other little shadow children, with the backward names nodded their heads. "Yes," the agreed, "that would bo pleasant." - - "Shadows, you see, don't like sunshine. That's why they are al ways using their masters and mistresses aa a shield. Now they dart in front of them, now they hide behind them always they seek to get as far away, from the sua as possible. It is the same with ail shadows, even your own. "If we could only move" be gan Flor. " could only move into a house where there was no sun shine," broke in MiJ. who was Flors twin. - "We could move to the North Pole," said Yam. "Then we'd have six months of night with no sun shine at all." "But." interrupted Hanld, "then we'd have six months of daylight, with nothing but sun shine." All at once Knarf gave a shout. "I know a house," he exclaimed, "where there's never any sun ahine and where we can go to live at once." The others gazed at the little shadow-hoy in puzzle ment. As a rule when Knarf made a suggestion like this, he had a surprise in store. But no - he looked quite serious this time. "Is it far from here?" asked Hanid. "It's on the table in the nurs ery," was his amazinz reply. "In the nursery!" they cried. "Why, what kind of a house is it?" For answer Knarf led them into the nursery. Sure enough, on the table was the semblance of a house. It had an entrance and a little porch, and a square roof and and several stories. 7';? shadow-children walked BUT. MV DEAR. .THE VJ OH. MR. -SiMfciMS 'M PetrrrJ aiho takes . f Lc CAM TAICE MV UKJE I "THEIR V0CHON - VACAT iOMMEV T LAreAW6EC MEyTT WEEk., J VOHY I ?UT I I ji I ' ji .HW..Ki.ytrtOT Bycu. ha. Or Brtuhi r WMr.it CHI13) tS OOtttS SPUSHD1TX IM HER CLASS WORK? THE TEACWEGS'SA SUE IS A PERFECT SCHOLAR-QUICK- BRIGHT. o&EDiEKrr - - I Beueve A CHANGE Or SCHOOLS AT THIS TIME WOUUD BE A GREAT MISTAKE ' around it several timet, admiring the outside, which was covered with designa. , - "Let's go inside and " began Flor. " and look around," conclud ed MU. . They walked ia oa the ground floor and found themselves in a cosy room. "lent the wallpaper fretty!" exclaimed Yam. "It's all little different-colored heartss1 "The next floor," said Knarf, pointing above, "is done In dia monds." 9 9 5 0 "Isn't the Wallpaper Pretty?" "It doesn't seem to have any windows," remarked Hanid. "Of course not," said Knarf. 'That is why the sunlight doesn't get in. It's dim' all the time." It certainly seemed as if Knarf were right. "We can move in this very minute," he added. "I'll take this corner," said Yam. "And I'll take that corner," said Hanid. "And we'll take the other two corners," said the twins. As there were no corners left, Knarf took the middle. "Now let's all take a nap in our new home," said Yam. Scarcely had they closed their eyes, when India, the maid en tered the nursery. "A little fresh air," said she, flinging open the window, "will do no harm." But she was wrong. It did do harm. It let in a hre?.- which y -rww wr vvr -vw- M DEAR HUS&AKD, BUT A PUBLIC SCHOOL "DOES NOT OFFER PROPER ATMOSft&RE R3R A CHILD THAT BEARS OUR A1AME? ALL OP THE MEMBERS OF MV FAMILV, EITHER. HAP PERSONAL TUTORS OR ATTENDED PRWATE SCHOOLS, AND I VtoOLD SU66EST WE PLACE MlSS IN A PRIMATE SCHOOL. AT ONCE7 ili Home-Making Helps By ELEANOR ROSS GET TVLSj VALUE FROM THE CAREFUL WRAPPING OF FOODSTUFFS Our astonishment . at the way good food is sold In market places abroad is only equalled by the amusement with which French women in particular, regard our passion for wrapping everything. Ia the French streets it's a reg ular sight the half-yard of bread tucked under the house-wife's arm, and no paper or anything to cover it. Not that the streets abroad are more immaculate than ours, or that their germs are bet ter trained and don't alight on ex posed stuffs. Merely habit and rigid economy. Here everything we buy is wrap ped most skilfully. Bread comes in tightly sealed wrappers and quite mechanically the grocer will wrap our pound of butter in an extra paper, despite the fact that it comes in its own carton, oil-paper lined. So much the bet ter. Here we believe there's no such thing as too much vigilance in protecting our foods from ex posure to the dirt-laden air. Yet, in- handling foods, once they get into the home, there are some habits which rather nulli fy the work of the manufacturer who so carefully wraps every thing and for which, incidentally, we pay when we buy these well- protected foods. One curious hab it which is found in many kitch ens is to toss the loaf of bread, paper wrapper and all, into the nice clean bread-box. Now, al though the paper wrapper pro tects the bread, the wrapper Itself is kept exposed, both in trans portation to the shop and while on the grocer's shelves. Therefore! it should be removed immediately it comes Into the kitchen. Only the: bread should be kept In the bread-hot. never the paper. -' Similarly, the carefully wrap ped meat comes from the butcher promptly blew down the shadow children's bouse. For it was noth ing but a house of cards, you see. CJH. MR . xruT "THE WEETEr OV-D B UTTEC BALL. FOfc PUTTIM MAC i3AJ FO NEXT VUEEk. Because I kmovu haC vajll rr n si it if i a .... .. m sv mL I "t f PRIVATE SCHOOLS MV wnr BE ALL KlauT OWM UdV RUT NOT 601NGTDGET IN MY WAV. .. AVWf FROM hi- HOmZ FIRST T ANN, till and Is placed, paper and all in the refrigerator. .Not so good for aeveral reasons. Paper which has beea handled by several per sona and exposed to the outside air shouldn't be placed in the im maculately clean refrigerator. Al so, if the meat is covered by thick paper It is kept from thorough chilling in the refrigerator. Con sequently, the" better plan is to remove the meat immediately it comes to the kitchen from its pa per wrapping, place In the plate or bowl reserved for the purpose, ) and put in the refrigerator where It will be kept thoroughly cold until ready to use. Any food that comes wrapped in paper boxes or cartons should be removed immediately and stor ed in the kitchen in tin, glass or china containers. "To leave an op ened paper box 'on tbe kitchen shelf is to invite any insects that may be lurking in the neighbor hood and aexne always are. The Insect woii at always with us, whether within easy visible dis tance or not. Any exposed food will bring them out in an amaz ingly brief space of time. But there are" other kinds of containers so specially adapted to their foods that they need only be kept as is. Coffee that comes in well-sealed tins need not be transferred, but opened so tht the lid is not brokei and can al ways be replaced so as to kern the jar airtight. Olive oil in tins should be left there. It should not be poured even iu small quan tities in glass bottles and left to stand. Oliveoil is affected advers ely by sunlight, and should be kept in an opaque container. Any liquid foods that are bought in paper jars like cream, milk, peanut butter, etc., should be -transferred - immediately to some more substantial bowl or pitcher. While these containers are made quite sturdy, neverthe less prolonged soaking may af fect the flavor of the food milk and creai i being especially sensi tive and absorptive. By CLIFF STERRETT) By RUSS WESTOVER MP KIM'S yoo'J ME - HE'S By VERDj. IN THEIR TUPV'Pt: INN(N6 TO LOOK AS if our ' little ANNIE'S POPULARITY MAS ' " B6EM lost;. . -STRAyEP, :. OR -; STOLEN what's rr ALL LEADING TO? WE WOMfCreR. JUL RUM By JIMMY.MURPHXI uv?r it!