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and thicken it with flour for muf
fins. If it is kept several days,
add one-half teaspoon of soda for
each cup of batter.
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saucer under your potted plant and
it will absorb the right amount of
moisture from the mat.
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Pipe cleaners are handy in the
kitchen to clean gas burners, lem
onade sippers, funnels, etc.
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added to stove blacking will give
the stove a brilliant luster that
will last for a long time.
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till the last minute, fix a novel
gift for him this way: Stick pen
nies, nickles or dimes into a shiny
red apple, tie a ribbon bow on the
blossom end, and the gift is
ready.
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CHAPTER I
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"That's the child—that’s Cherry,"
Sister Seraphine said in her serene
voice. Her hands were crossed and
hidden within her wide sleeves, but
a motion of her caped and coifed
head indicated a certain girl among
the milling masses, and the man
who was her companion looked at
the girl keenly.
The tableaux and the play were
over, but many of the girls still
wore their make-up and a theatrical
excitement
possessed
the
hot.
crowded hall. It was not a large
hall; just now it was tilled with
spectators, nuns and performers
mixed indiscriminately.
Bright lights flooded auditorium
and stage: groups formed and re-
formed. The man watched the girl
To take black stains out of a i he had identified for a few minutes
hardwood floor, scrub floor vigor and thought that she was a vital
ously with hot water and javelle young creature, anyway: she was
water, using a stiff brush. For ' not a bad-looking young creature,
persistent stains repeat process.
anyway;
she
seemed
popular
enough, anyway. Obviously she was
the center of everything that went
on.
As the daughter of an Indian chief
she had taken the leading part in
the play that had concluded the pro
gram. and had appeared also in
■ For PROMPT relief—rub on Mus-
more than one of the tableaux that
fl terole! Massace with this wonderful
preceded it
Judson Marshbanks
■ " counter - irritant ” actually brines
H fresh warm blood to aching muscles
saw her questioned, kissed and con
fl to help break up painful local con-
gratulated; saw her drop her proud
fl gesuon. Better than an old-fashioned
ly feathered head more than once in
fl mustard plaster! In 3 strengths.
a deprecating fashion, as if she
were embarrassed by praise.
Her head went suddenly down
After sotae fifteen minutes of this with her hands. The judge cleared
post - performance bedlam when
some of the audience were already my dear?”
drifting away a nun drew her quiet
“Seven,” she said unsteadily. “I
ly aside. The girl’s laughing ex remember her. and living in the
If you’re concerned about what pression changed, as she glanced in country.”
sort of gift to send a friend or rela his direction. She joined him im
"You came here at seven. Thir
tive in one of Uncle Sam’s mediately.
teen years! But they haven’t been
branches of the services, your
“Cherry, this is Judge Marsh- unhappy years, have they. Cherry?”
worries are over. If he smokes a banks," said Sister Seraphine, and
“No. They've been — heavenly
pipe or rolls-his-own, the answer the judge watched her dark eyes years!” she said loyally, after a
is a pound of tobacco. Numerous brighten suddenly, and felt the moment. “But. of course— of course
surveys made among soldiers, touch of her warm, young, quickly —I've wanted someone of my own—
sailors, marines, , and Coast extended hand.
someone ...”
Guardsmen show that tobacco
All she said was a somewhat shy
Her head went suddenly down
ranks first on his gift list. Local how-do-you-do, but her look added
on the table, she covered her
tobacco dealers are featuring what she did not say; “I know your
face with her hands. The judge
Prince Albert in the pound can name! I know something about
cleared his throat.
for service men. Prince Albert, you.”
“Of course you have, of course
the world's largest-selling smok
“Well, so you led the pioneers out you have,” he said a little thickly.
ing tobacco, is a big favorite of danger?" Judson Marshbanks
‘T'm very sorry,” she said com
among many men in the service. asked amiably. Color showed un posedly in the voice and manner of
—Adv.
der her Indian brown and he thought a much older woman. “I don't cry
with satisfaction that she was a much. I don’t know what started
handsome, glowing sort of girl who me. We’ve been decorating and re
ought not to have too much trouble hearsing until I suppose I'm tired.
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getting along.
But of course, they haven’t been un-
“It was a silly sort of play,” the | happy years.” she said sensibly.
girl said quickly. He remembered
“Sister Seraphine said that you
that she had written it, and smiled. were the most influential girl in the
“Come over here and sit down. school,” the man put in.
It you suffer from hot flashes, dizzi
ness. distress of ■•Irregularities”, are
Cherry; I want to talk to you a
“Oh. that couldn’t have been Sis
weak, nervous, irritable, blue at
minute.” he said. “I'll not keep you ter Seraphine; she never praise*
times—due to the functional
“middle-age" period In a woman's
long. I’m joining a friend who is anyone!” Cherry smiled, with wet
life—try Lydia E Pinkham's Vege
flying his plane down to San Fran J eyes.
table Compound—the best-known
cisco tonight.”
i
“It was, though. She said they
medicine you can buy today that's
made eapecially tar women.
Cherry looked dazed with excite would be sorry to lose you. Sorrier
Pinkham's Compound has helped
ment and surprise. A man coming than over losing almost any other
thousands upon thousands of wom
to see her, who had not averaged a girl.”
en to relieve such annoying symp
toms Pollow label directions. Pink
caller a year in all her twenty
“Did she say that?” Cherry had
ham's Compound 1* worth tryirtg/
years, and coming just now. when pushed off her headdress now and
she was still flushed and breathless he saw that her hair was a warm
from the evening’s thrills, created tawny mixture of tan and brown.
s.
a situation that silenced her. She The significance of his last phrase
No Poshing Nature
sat down and looked at her com came to her suddenly. “Sorry to
We must go slowly and gently panion expectantly and could not lose me?” she repeated, the color
to work with Nature if we would speak.
leaving her face. “You mean I'm
get anything out of her.—Goethe.
"I thought it was a very good going out?”
play," said the judge,
"I under-
"You’re twenty, aren’t you? Isn’t
stand that you wrote it? It was sort that the age when girls are launched
of allegory—a pageant, wasn't it?” from Saint Dorothea's?”
"Well, they all have to be pag-
“Yes. but—yes, but—” she whis
eants, because of having to get all pered, and stopped.
the girls in,” Cherry answered in a
“Don’t you want to? Dpn’t you
shy voice.
want a look at something outside
“Oh, you have to get all the girls these four walls?” the judge ques
in?” he asked aloud.
tioned.
OR SPREAD
“Oh, yes. Last Halloween we had
“Why, yes; the others have. But
only fifteen girls, so that wasn't so I never thought of it as my turn!”
hard. I could have used more!”
the girl said. "And I have been
Noble Actions
“I see. And do you always write out, you know,” she reminded him.
Good actions ennoble us, and we the plays?"
“In the city, I mean. I taught the
are the sons of our own deeds.—
“Well, usually. Yes, I guess al last three terms at the kinder-
Cervantes.
garten.
ways."
Her face was streaked with soot
“And who wrote the song?”
"That Madeleine sang? Didn’t as she spoke, her eyebrows had
she sing that beautifully? Sister melted and her cheeks were pale.
Claude,” Cherry went on, suddenly But she was giving no thought, he
warming to confidence, "went to perceived, to her appearance; she
444,
was absorbed in the stunning new*
TABLETS.
opera once. You know, real opera.
SALVE,
of the approaching change in her
"I didn't think Sisters did.”
NOSE DROPS,
COUGH OROPt
“Oh, but this was before she en life.
“Would it be to go to San Fran
Try "Rob-My-Tlso"—• Wond*r/ul Liniment tered!" the girl reassured him. And
for the first time he heard her reso cisco?” she asked eagerly, like a
child.
6 43 nant joyous laugh.
WNU—13
"I don’t suppose you would rather
“You wrote the words to the song,
make it somewhere else?” he asked
too?”
“Oh, well, yes,” Cherry said care in return. “What I had to suggest
lessly. “And she said—Sister Claude was a secretarial position in San
did, that Madeleine sang like the Francisco.”
"A secretarial position?” she
prima donna—she said so, really."
“You acted the leading part, too," asked, flustered, “I don't think I
May Warn of Disordered
could take a position, That is ex-
the man said.
Kidney Action
“Yes, I had to! Miriam Foster cept in a kindergarten! I can type
Modern life with It* hurry and worry.
Irrecular habit*. Improper ratine and
was twenty and so she had to go write. and I'm getting better at ste
drinking—it* risk of exposure and infec
home.
We thought she’d be here nography, and I speak a little
tion—throw* heavy «train on the work
of the kidney*. They are apt to become
until at least Christmas, but her French and some Spanish. We have
over-taxed and fail to Alter exrva* add
mother sent for her. So I took her two sisters here from Belgium and
and other impuriliee from the life-civing
two from Madrid. But—would that
part.”
Mood.
You may suffer earring backache,
“Some of the girls here have be enough?”
headache, dissinees, getting up night*,
"Plenty, at first. Later, if you
mothers then, Cherry?” His tone
let pains, swelling—feel constantly
tired, nervoua. all worn out. Other signa
had changed. It had dropped to a wanted to study anything specifical
of kidney or bladder disorder are some
personal note of something like pity ly,” the judge said, “anything like-
times burning, scanty or too frequent
urination.
and tenderness, and he saw her well, library work or nursing or go
Try Doan'a Pith. Doan a help the
flush brightly again as she faced ing on with kindergarten work, we
kidneys to pass off harmful excess body
waste. They have had more than half a
him, realizing perhaps with a little could find out what the requirements
century of public approval. Are recom
fear that they reached their own are, and I don’t think there'd be
mended by grateful uaere everywhere.
Aak »our neighbor/
any trouble.”
afTairs now.
“But—” Her pale, tear-streaked
“Yes; some have,” she said al
and paint-streaked face reddened
most inaudibly.
“And you know that you lost suddenly. “But have I any mon
yours when you were very small, ey?" she asked hesitatingly. And
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Greatest Swindle
on the table,
his throat.
covered her face
then, with a little trembling return
to emotion, "You see, I don't know
much about myself.
I know my
mother’s dead, and 1 suppose my
father. And some of the girl* here
have told me about themselves, and
I've thought—I've suspected, that
that was true of me. too—1 mean
that perhaps I haven't any right to
my father's name.
Perhaps you
could tell me that?"
Her voice faltered, but she held
it as firm as she could, and looked
straight into his eyes.
“I can't tell you very much. Cher
ry,” said the judge, with a straight
forwardness as simple as her own.
and with a great ache at his heart
I know that we had in our family
for many years a fine housekeeper
named Emma. She was a trained
nurse, took care of my brother ant
me. when we were boys, and after
ward of my father.
She was i
silent creature, but very capable
and reliable. Some years ago—well
perhaps almost twenty—she gave u;
her job to live with a Mrs. Rawlingi
who was ill.”
“Emma!” said Cherry, with i
brightening face. “I remember herl
She took care of my mother ant
me.
“Yes; that same Emma. Aftei
your mother's death quite a sum ol
money was left for you. Emms
came to me about it. You were tc
be sent here, she said. Well, you
were sent here! Your own mothei
chose the place.”
“She would know about my moth
er—Emma,” the girl said, “she
could tell me.”
“She mightn't tell you. She ha*
another position now. housekeeper
to a very lovely old lady. I don't
see Emma often. But during these
thirteen years, when you've been ill
—you were ill once, weren’t you?"
the judge broke off to say. speaking
comfortably, as if the subject pre
sented no difficulties, and smiling
with the question.
“I had scarlet fever, and then 1
broke my leg falling out of a tree,”
Cherry supplied.
“Well, about things like that she
would consult me. Your mother
made me your joint guardian with
Emma.”
“Guardian for what?" the girl
asked quickly.
"A sum of money for all your ex
penses, for your education.”
"But Emma," the girl said quick
ly and proudly, “wasn't paying that.
She was—she was only my mother’s
nurse!”
“No; it had been left with her for
you, and she put it into my hands.
Through Emma that account had
taken care of you all these years.
And even now I know there is
enough left to help you into any pro
fession you choose.”
Cherry considered this, bright-
eyed and thoughtful.
"Emma got in touch with me ten
days ago,” the man said, "to re
mind me that you would be twenty
this week. She was the one to get
you this position.”
"You didn't know my mother?”
the girl asked with a steady look.
“I never saw her.”
“Emma never said anything of
my father?”
"I know that he is dead.”
“I think,” Cherry said, "I’ve al
ways thought that I was an un
wanted baby, and that I caused my
mother great trouble, and that
Emma was a friend who came to
stand by her at the end.”
“Why mightn’t you think that your
mother had been widowed, and was
as happy in having you as any other
mother?”
(TO HE CONTINUED)
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was perpetrated by Germany in I
her payments of reparations after
the First World war, according to
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Among the numerous absurd
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for her devastations were the cost
of the German warships which
were scuttled by their own crews
in Scapa Flow after being turned
over to the British, and the inter
est on the $7,500.000,000 lent her
by the Allies after the war to en
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