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fodnesday Evening, June 10, 1925
t-
111 EDGEXE GUAKD
Page Nine
"You poor simp!" Gloria flame
(Continued from page one)
tiy, "just because I'd Jiad a turn
down from a club of miserable, old
(romps? Not on your eyebrow pen
til! Those domes can't high-bnt me,
dtirie. .. . I don't want to belong
to their little group of serious think-
May sat down before Gloria's
dressing table nud rubbed some per
fame under her pointed cnm. cue t
irinaed impishly.
"Are you going to join: i ngni mucn . . . just this; I must see you!
Hictly see you in a Home Woman's) When? Where? Make it soon,
dub," she said. "You're hardly a; Phone me."
tanekeeping type, Glory. I wish i No name was signed to the little
-ou wouldn't join. ... I think you.1 note. Gloria didn't like that. It
offe it to me not to! Just to show! seemed cowardly not to sign one's
those women that they can't snub 'name to a letter. . . . She would
me, and get away with it:
Gloria set her -lips firmly.
"I've promised Mother Grocery I'd
join." she said. She had no intention
of being an outcast along with May.
There were points where friendship
ceased. Ibis was one of them:
i ,UAnt n flnrn
thether you got into the club or
not, anvway," Gloria went on. "You
just said you didn't!" j
May bit her lip.
"That was pure bunk." she con- j
ftssed. "Whistling in the dark to
keep up my courage." I
Mny wiped her eyes and blew ner j
nose loudlv. Gloria could sec thut
he was having hard work to fight
back the tears in her eyes.
"Between you and me, Gloria, she
laid shakily, "it's nil but killed me
to hear that they didn't want me in
that club. ... I never used to care
what women snid about me, but this
rot my gont. somehow. You take it
from me, it's no use trying to buck
other women. They've laid down cer-1
tain lines, and unless a girl follows
tbem, they'll get her . . . they've
ilmot got me.
"Why, this morning when Jim
phoned I wouldn't even let him talk
to me . . . Yrnid the phone girl might
b listening in. And, cross my lirart.
there never has boon anything real!,
roo(t between me nwl Jim . .
hst a little foolishness.'
Gloria wns sure thnt Mny was tell-
W the truth.
"I came in to ask you to ro nown
tetrn with me, but I enn see you're
too busy," May said naturally, after
l minute or two. "Don t fornet ttiat
Im Laying; the card-club Thursday.
ill you? It's the last time well nil
lee our lovine enemy. .Myra t.nu,
before she Roes away next week."
"I thoimh you liked Myra, l.lonn
I iM. surprised.
' "Teh. I love her the way you do!"
Miy retorted, makine little claws of
k.. . I .1. 1.11... 4...f thn KftmP
lu IIHIIII3, lllll JUt"
I'd rather have her for a friend than .ou('n,rPr h,'ve occured to her.
n enemy . . . and she's a friend of.. h . hero blaek-balle
ill these club women who've iced me.
besides!"
Mar nicked up a hand mirror and
tallied her face.
"T tmls. I believe I'm Rottlnst a
'ine between my eyebrows!" she
" or is it just a shadow? . .
the way. isn't this hnt of mine
'be cat's ksnittons! . I spent all the
twter for the butcher's bill on it.
Tl.Te's one place where T can
J"ock t, rp.t of tn(, womrn for
"icsko loop, nnvwav ... in my
Knth."
"loria's smile pitied Mny. She
J that Mny was far from beinc
'll-ilrrssed. Her hat wa ton nr
her tan shoes too tan. her thin
""'lint, ton thin.
'vra f'flil was the best dressed wo
?! in town, when it came to that.
"Ha . nun,, mnR:. t.n..i, .r raP;B
'! the clothes Mvra would brine
from pri, . ; .
fter Mnv tia.l t.n,.r
"happily i job' of n,rkinr
trunk thnt ,. ,lutlnn,l nf to
the ocean in the hold of a
Hod Carrier
T ,v,.
mans nt orica
r" plains where bri'k layers
7 "caLnce ourton
il at hor, "to make a bid like that w
trench boat! . . . How stingy Dick
was not to let her go with Myra!
That afternoon a letter came . . .
a large white envelope with hand
writing that had a certain dash,
a careless charm.
Gloria knew, somehow, thnt it was
from Stanley Wavburn befon shi !
looked at it. A thrill ran throuah I
her an slip nnnnf) it
"Russet, dear."
it said. "There's
so mucn l want to eay to you. And
.vet when I come to write it, it isn't !
have liked Stan to run chances for i
her. I
But then, she knew he never would
He never had. "Sufotv First" Thnt !
was his motto.
She tore the paper up and threw'
it into the waste basket. Then, fear- .
fill lest HntivhiM mivi.c ..; !
gether and read it, she took the torn ;
pieces downstairs and burned them
the living room grate. .
Alter mat she ran upstairs to her
room, bolted the door, and telephoned ;
Stanley " ayhurn. j
An hour later the two of them
w ere logetner .. . . speeding along
-the lonely country roads west of the
town, in the enr that had been Glor-i
in's birthday gift from Dick. .
Gloria's heart was like a wild bird,
suddenly
freed from the cage that
had bruised its wings.
The eyes she turned t Wayburn
were starry with happiness, and wet
with tears of relief at seeing him
j again.
"I've missed you so!" she anid.
Way burn's arms went around her like
In vise. He kissed her hungrily.
I Gloria closed her eyes.
"Look out!" Stan yelled. He
grubbed the steering wheel just m
, time to keep them from swerving off
tne road lino me unci, mm inn
along it.
(iloria straightened Iter hat. and
took a tiehter hold on the wheel.
"Well." she sighed, "if I have to
die in an automobile accident, I'd
rather be with you at the time than
anyone else in the world!"
Stan smiled grimly.
"I'm r.ot so keen on dyinu just
now, so keep your eyes on the road."
he said. . . . I'nder his harshness.
(iloria drooped like a flower.
It was blue dusk when they ilrme,
back into town. The ",I''",,-mmI'" j
made colden pools in the wet streets.,
-
(Iloria drove the car into a dark(
and lonely side-street to let B
.
A few days aao tins pre ;
j ner. inn.
balled by
the Home Women's club (iloria was
-, ;.t nnle'. and the things they
inipht say . . . about her 'and Stan. ,
n, Hhv after to-1
morrow . . . "" time and place ,
Stan asked, openinlt the door of the
machine.
(llorin shook her head.
w..'i ' she said. "That s Thura-
.t.... T'. ....nminod MaV I'd RO tO I
imi . i" " . . ,
the card-clnh meetinR turn uaj.
She lonRed to asK mm wuy
couldn't meet her the nest afternoon, j
Hut ehe hadn't the courace. . . .
She had a miserable conviction that
there was a woman mijed up m
evcrvthiliR Stan did. every engage
ment he had. (
H.'iirrh for the woman.
and you ;
e.wl st.n. at the same time.
rd Thursday afternoon when
(Iloria went up the front walk to
M,.v hou-e. she was still wondering
with whom Stan's engagement Wednesday-
had been.
u...:... ru,olek hail left town. That
eliminated her. Perhaps it had been
... j:u whom S.'nn had seen:
' A moment later (iloria was kissing
in Viiv'b big bedroom, aa tney
-ft httir rpinl
"Mow are vou. Myra?" she asked j
.ieetlv. -Midn't I see you down-j
town ve.terday afternoon?
Not me." M ra shook her head, i
t was out in the country driving all .
Instantly Olori. wss Tiled with
wild jealousy. She was .nr. that
Mvra had been driving with Stanley
W.vbiim . . . just as sure as if ne
had seen them together!
Burning with anger, she went
downstairs and found the table where I
-.. ... t. nt.r. I.ola Hnugn
sat
.i..- n-.iiinr IxIa in her oid f"
H Hress. was bright-eyed and e-
,.,it These card-club dsya
were
j high spots in her dull life
on'.'., partners. she Saul m
r:inri. "Mrra (iall ana -nmj
are
', mint 10 nl.y btrr. too."
i dorr wa .orry she had to start
out the game with Ila for a part
i .r She wa a very poor player.
land nearly alwa spoiled her pari-
I .,'. ehsnce for the pnie.
v 125 nea sewicb inc
hen you had a bust hand
on the table as if they were live I
thines to vent her Rint immi i
things to vent her spite upon!
j Records," l'rofesnor K. G. Sctiafcr.
The very first hand Lola lost her; KFI, Los Angeles, 407 meters
game. ! 5:30-0 p. m.. Examiner's musical half
Two red spots of color rose in hour; U-6:lo, McDnniel's nightly do
Gloria's face. All her anger toward 1 i'lK; 0:4.V7. miuical appreciation
Stanley Wayburn and Myra gathered
like
cyclone. In its path, latin ,
ood quite defenseless. I
'You nnnr simn'" (Ilnrin flmnoH At
her, "to mnke a bid like that when 1
5" naa 8 p.ufir nnwi: iou
m,zyI 1 should think you'd
must be ,
learn a '
few rules of the en me. if You're eo- i
ing to even make a stab nt playing :
bridge:
All the color drained out of Lola's
cheeks. If Gloria had slapped her
face she couldn't have hurt her morn.
She put one hand on the table and
r0Re' ''-vfry woman in the room was
looking at her.
"Vl" nrr'" ho Rni(1- "Perhaps I
nftU,an 1 rnnU wi,n P'pl llke
you. who never forget that there:
nt tnf oml OI, ,he ll"r- 1 ,lont,
p,VJ a Profp,;f,"1nI y'
M"r cam aenws the room.
"Blense. girls, don't quarrel.' she
trying to push Lola down in
her clmir. iUt sit down. Lola, and
" "UI' u,,r
I'ut Lola was firm.
"No.' she snil with n breaking
voice, "I'm going. There's no use
in my trying io seep up who you
girls. ... 1 dm t have time to play-
often enough to keep my wits sharp
And 1 shouldn't have come toduy.
Adds Charm
To Doorway
The beauty of any doorway such
m js phRn(., by ,w0
irte pot, 0f rreen shrubs, one placed
s()f Th(-j d(J distinction ,
your home.
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. . , The Perfect Alibi
Jerry On the Job
r " 1 Isaig9V.I I , Wi&M I 80bSuTP
v ZL warms' An,Ti -tu0 JjT.-. - . r- 1 Os?!aftTMeWT ff FUU.OC P' WWvfe
a ma or m-m mjm
it all. I left my ironing to couie . ."
She went unsteadily upstatra to
get her wraps.
"Well, let's go on with our giune.
Gloria broke the cold silence I.ola left
behind her. 'She really hain't any
business to be playing bridge, any
way. She's the worst player:"
Suddenly Myra got up. too.
"I think I'll go wiih I.ola," she
said quietly. ,
O'o be continued tomorrow)
Radio
Programs
PACIFIC COAST
KGW, Portland, -IU1.3 meters 0 tt
7 p. iu., Jackie guilders' Portland
hotel dance orchestra; intermission
solos by Mis. J. M. Lowe, sopran.i;
7:30-S p. in., weather, police ami mar
Kfi iv puris, news built tins and base
ball scores; S-10 p. m.. Who You
Uos-ier program by courtesy Charle3
F. Here; Portland concert trio. I.u-
jcile Kirtley, aopramo ami Hcrmce Al- .
I stock, contralto; 10-11 p. in., concert'." or"hplra Hetty Patrick, solo
'from duo-art studio by Sherman, fkiy "Vuw-n ,,
! and company. L Kl,"lt Hollwood. IM meters
KFKt Meier and Frank comnanrJ
4o meters musical n rug rum:
U, weather report.
KF.1U. Ashley C. Dixon and sou,
Htxt me tors 8-S:."0 p. m., boy scout
program; 8:30-8:40, better busiuehs
talk.
KFAK, Pullman, Wnh., 34S.O me
ters 7:30-0 p. m., Mary Cameron,
pianist; Doris Sic Reynolds, violinist;
"Cauino Distemper," Dr. lleorjie K.
Fowler; "Modern riant Doctors,"
George L. under; "The Lost Art of,
Enjoying Oneself," liev. It. W. (ini-
... ' ... .. '
ves; intereating asnniKtou Crop
talk; 7-7:'JO, detective story. Nick
I lams; i :J0. "Outline l Science
1 'avid Nelson Clark ; 7 :;U)-S, half hour !
nf HiiWHlinM tnns'c. Ilnwniinn l-nnr: .
S O, continuity program. Ventura U- j
fining company; "Summer Fiesta of !
Music and Song;' i-lt), F.xamuier,
Wxmnna nroirrnm. nrtvjs ptnt nt llie !
screen industry; 10-11. Patrick-Marsh'
IT'S OLD ENOUGH TO BE NEW
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t Sf v .1.
P !. K iij ) 'j!f JV 'I-
s fl'V-iJ .
a? 5?'V,, P JL '
Where do all the different atylea como from, wo often won
der? On the stage Blanche Yurka wears a ahawt wound around
her head In the fashion of the Norwegian peasant woman. She
decided the same Idea would make a chlo new style, since the
Norse women have been wearing It for centuries, ao she wound
a shawl around her head and appeared at the Belmont race track
k. nthr riav. And now' a new stylo hss started. It Is called
the Cina turban, after the character Miss Yurka plays
stago.
FLAPPER FANNY sav?
i
Warmod over dinners make luve
grow cold.
' " m" 1" " eriy Kiuge
i i-ouipatiy; Iti-ver
! dance orchestra;
; rowhead SprniKs
i rowhead striug
V Kid.ee Collegian t
S -0, program. Ar- 1
ctimpany; Lake Ar-;
quartet; Riil Hath 1
laud Ray Kellogg, the Jan twins; 0-'
! 10. Warner Brothers' s.wicopatom, 1
I harlc3 Itcauohmnp, tenor; 10-11,
arner Brothers' frolic, direction
Charlie Wtdlmon.
K11.J, Los Angeles, 403. a meters
5:30-0 p. m Lcighton'a Arcade cafe-
: ,i "::i0' An "'-'!"'' Hiltmore
i i-. ,
'r. cwaru imir
patrick, director; 0:30-7:30, little sto
ries American history, Professor Wal
ter Sylvester llertzg, orphan kithiien
tf Los Augelea with Hurry Jimus
lleardsley t Cousin Jim); Dick Wins
low, juvenile reporter; llaby Muriel
Mac Corinae and Mickey McRan.
"'cn starlets
S, Dr. Mars Hum
lecturer; S:30. 10:30,
Canit, ri'lHli
pr-srnm, ..roadway department store;
i" ' ' rr mcKinan s nuinmre
""f' ',"", orchestra. Karl Hurtnett.
lend'T,
KNX, Hnllywooit, 330.0 meters
"-'-Ja'M
the
The Little Tellow is Ritfht,
; V timmioMwttK
.V.tO-fl p. in.,- Wurlitzer pipe organ
audit, Sid Ziff's short talks: 0:15.
( trawl talk. V. F. Adler; B:30, tale
of i:iM-ct life, Harry W. MeSpaddeu;
; 7-S, Ambassador hotel concert orchea- (
tra, Josef Koseufeld. director; S-10,
KNX feature prog:um; pro
gram, Hercules Helming company.
KPO, San Francisco. meters I
-0:40-7 p. m., .States Kestnuraut or-!
chcitra; 7-7 .30, Uitdy Seiners Faii-j
mount hotel orcneatra; S-l. stud.
program: 0-10, (ioodrich Stlvertown i
t'ord orchestra; 10-11, States Ke-i
tauraut orchenra.
KFOA, Seattle, 4M.S meters-re-1
cipe; fi-0:4,"i. concert orcheRtra; l:4o-j
SroO, llopper-Keily company Ktihl.o j
prsram; 8:30-10, Tiinea studio pro-j
sram.
K.IK. Seattle. IUS.4 meter9-:30- j
10 p. m I'ost lutellisencer atudi-"1
program.
KFStI, I.o Angelea, 275 meters
7:30-0:15 p. in,, church ervice; evan
selistic sermon and water baptismal
service, conducted by Aimee Semple
Mcl'lierson; 0:15-10, program arratijt
cd by Huth Frances Thomas assist
ed by the lluntimtton Four quartet;
10-11, organ recital of Fnther Frtc'-;
' (Jreen, assisted by t.ertrude Koeli
1 rins, com ratio; orKau numbers will
include "lawn." by Cyril Jenkins;
I "Adoration. by llornwikt; "Fo'io
i He'ls," by John llvatt Brewer.
CROSS-WORD FOR
L1TTLIS FOLKS
By LITTLK JOB
VDr haven't had a pusxle contain
ing so many different sizes nf
words in a long time. There is only
one catchy word in it. That is num
ber 1 going tlown but if you have a
radio even that will be easy.
ACROSS
I' I m i3 1 r
l l-J
tsa
ii
n ft1 r":
alb .ti
a I M I 1
Toward.
Ited vegetable.
Wing of it fish.
Name of something (think of
your grammar. I
Part of verb 'to be."
Country hotel.
To knot.
Point of compass.
Possessed.
Polite word to say after yes
when spenkiug to an older man.
1 teenved.
DOWN
Finding a radio station on your
set.
Flour box.
Half mi em (ask a printer).
Opposite to wild.
A good time.
Fnit.
To help.
A small pie.
To strike.
Therefore.
A word) almost, like "a" hut
used before vowel words.
On (iiirdcMiin
CFT tmiato plnuts between the rows
of pens and you will havn a fo- j
low crop when the peas sre nil done. I
t J
Get celery seed started in the seed j
bed Also cjibliage, cauliflower and I
kohl rahis to follow the enrliest crop. I
I i
Pon't overlo'ik the new eHrly
flowering strnins of cosmos aud also I
the doiibln ones. They will he a rev- I
i elation In this bundm-me annua i.
Take a chance on toinatoea, They
ran be protected easily from any tin
welcome nip. Set fb'wer pots in the
row nud have a board ready to set
o er the tops of the young plnnts.
ind I hey will come through any ordi
nary shnap. You can hang burlap over
(lie bonrd to mnke a tent for them
Absolutely Eight
JACK DAWS
Story by Hal Cochran
TOY CAVE
JJKHK cornea your bat, ituddenly announceil the. hermit. And jn, a
few yards away Jack saw two little Toy Cave men wnlkfnjr brtnkty
alouR with a lonu bat on (heir shoulder. They carried it just lifcp nn-n
carry a long plank and It surely looked funny, .lack rtinhed up to met tlieui
and pt Die bat.
VllKN he took hold of it and swung tt a couple M times he lurnd tn
the hermit and oxclatmed; "Gee, it's a peach. Feels just right." Then
he handed it to Dotty and told her to try it. Uotty managed to swing il
all right, but admitted It seemed a hit heavy. Of course, it would be to a
Kirl.
MOW w can go on with our bnll game." said the little, fellow who
had flopped off nf Flip's back. So Jack stood np at the home haso
and told the little midget to throw the ball. Aa It cams sailing past,
Jark swung hard, hut missed It completely, This made all of the midgcta
laugh. (Continued.)
nud then take It off In the morning
if it loks ihrentening.
1I .n...U,.,.n tw.nt .-.tin aiAJ.it nf thf.
hardy Faster lily. Lillum regal. It is
as ensyto grow from aeed as an onion
and rfietfulha will be hlooming slzo in
'three years, some of them blooming
'the second season. It coats $1 n bulb,
j You can raise two or three dozen
from a packet, of seed. This lily wants
full ami, unlike many other lilies.
Many gardeners saved aeed of the
7wrm,y ,nr '
the honey dew and ths musk melon
Mhich came into the market in small
(unnllties Isst year from lis .Texas
growers. This melon Is new and tin-
j tried In northern gardens. Plant the
, seed early, either in the hotbed or
Indoors as It needs nenrly as long a
seiiKon as the honey dew.
Home Hints
1 N PKF.PAH1NG salads remember
to tempt the eye as well as (he
appetite. Watch the color combina
tions as well as the fruit or vege
table Ingredients.
That Mushy Look
Never let salads stand long after
prepsrllig them. Nothing should be
wilted or mushy looking.
A German Inventor ' has msd
phonograph record that plays f
hour.
ADVENTURES
Drawing, by U W. Eednar
- CHAPTKIt lfl
Cynthia (irey Says:
j pOK centurlea no woman In Turkey
t dnrpd how hat face. Always .is
j ha veiled and guarded In the harem.
Then came the World War. Tin
sultan aud many old traditions we a
smashed at one blow.
After being under tha strictest re
straint throughout tlia ages, the Tur
klwli women suddenly attained (ho
"new freedom.' While women In olli'r
in,,,!,, fought for.eaual righta for g
!,, . " l, ,
I erntlons, ho Turkish women arhl
d
', them almost overnight.
They were even admitted to the ar
( my on equal terms with men and now
! the Turkish army la tha only . e
j in the world thnt enn boast of lw-
I women colonels mtd about a hnndr d
.offtceri of junior rank.
History fa something like a pe:i
I dulum. When held far to one sid-,
1 It nwlngs fHr to the other side wir-ii
relensid,
" That "was ths case with the Turk
ish women. In a brief period, th-y
shed their veils and became army
cdmiels.
And the same Is true of life itself.
If you restrain the young womnn
or oung man too much in the days
of youth, if you try to holnre them
! too min li fr"iit real itfe, there is
! nlmost certain lo come a tirn when
j they suddenly will go to the otlnT
, extreme.
The pendulum swing as fur to the
; left s to the right.
By BUD FISHER
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(Iloria d.lt the
know
j tahie. presently.
She fairly lappJ Ibem down
' really too busy to shirk
card..