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RUTH WYETH SPEARS if) yoUR rug bag contain* the best * possible material for making at­ tractive pads for chairs and foot stools. These may be hooked in the same manner as rugs are made. Cut or teur old materials into strips and draw loops through • ’/KATHLEEN NORRIS • Xffcy ©NORRIS CHAPTER I » "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. z¥0U WOMEN WHO SUFFER FROIK 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 Black . 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