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I Fifth Instalment
What Happened Before
Remember Steddon, a pretty, unsophis
ticated girl. *s ’be dnughtei of a kindly
but .i.inow-mtnded minister in a small mid
western town. I let father.
xCcv. Doctor Rieddon, violently onposed
to what he considers "worldly” things, ac
cepts motion pictures as the cause for
iTvtch of the evil of the ptesent day.
T oublcd with c cough, Remember goes
fo ree ... ,
)r. Brether'ck, an elderly physician, who
Is astonished at the plight in which he
finds her. Pressed by the doctor, Retnetn
V“i admits tier unfortunate afair with
Elwood Farnaby, a poor boy. son of the
to vn sot. As Re-netnbci and Dr. Bieth
e.ick discuss the problem a telephone tnes
s,o e brings the news that Elwood has been
Tilled in an accident. Dr. Bretherick ac
cordingly persuades Remember to go West,
her coLgh serving as a plausible excuse;
•o wrife home of meeting and marrying a
protended suitor—"Mr. Woodville"—and
later to write her parents announcing her
"husband's” death before the birth of her
expected child. Unable alone to hear her
secret, Remember goes to her mother with
Her mother agrees with the plan of the
doctor. Mem leaves town. On * ie train
Mem accidentally meets Tom He”*.!), movie
star, traveling with Robina Teele, leading
lady in the movies, who are the cynosure
of all eyes The train comes to an abrupt
hall, a disaster having been narrowly
avoided, and the passengers get out and
walk about.
A; Tucson Mem meets Dr. Galbraith, n
pa ’••r, who knows her father and takes an
it- e--«* in her. She miscalls Tom Holby
♦•Mr. Woodville” in order to make her
fancied suitor seem more real While the
Galbraiths are away, she writes them a
well as her parents that she has married
♦•Mr Woodville” and that they are to live
ir Yuma—for which place she buys a
ticket. . _ . .
Mem decides to kill off het imaginary
busba- d by saying he died of thirst in the
desert, meanwhile she starts off tot another
town to get a job as a servant. On the way
sb. runs into the movie company of Tom
1! Thy Tom insists that she become an
extra, and is most cordial to her. She finds
herself in the movie game.
Now Go On With the Story
Close-ttp * of individuals were
taken, the most striking types be
ing- selected and coached to express
crises of feeling: *‘\ ou go mad
and babble, old man, will you:
Tear at your throat and let your
tongue hang out? . . . You.
miss, will you fall back in your
mother’s arms—you be mother, will
von, miss, and catch her—you are
i, i • you know; just roll your eyes
1, >:d sigh and sink into a heap.
/ \ ou, mother, wring your hand'
beat • our breast and.* v>a..
' v,u understand — hieutal stali,
chi' . . .
“Ami I’d like somebody just to
look up to heaven and pray for
mercy—somebody with btg eyes—
| You, the young lady overt there—
v ill you step out? Ch, it’s Mrs.
\v uoJville, isn’t it? 1 met you tins
m >rimg.* litre’s your chance. Do
t.us tor me like a good girl, and
give yourself to it. l.uok up u<
heaven; it the sun br• t gs ttars to
your eyes all right, but let them
come from your soul, icnr, it you
Ckn. You see, you have seen your
people dying like flie - about you,
:. ftom famine and hardsh.p. You
‘look up and say, O God, you don't
, nuan for us to die in ti u useless
torture, do you, dear God? 'lake
my life and let these others live
Yvon’t you, dear God?”
Mem s'ood throbbing from nc>d
t' toot with embarrassriKut and j
x. iMi a strange inrush ot Mien i
moods. The nyree eyes ct the di
, ncor cu'-ning through his dark1
y • .■:>, t ie curl tus instigation m ‘
h s voice, the pLa to do well for
lu •; nckentd her magically.
v Iger took her by the arm and
muimurul:
‘Sow, dear! Let your heart
break! Look round and see your
dying people. That's your father
ever there just gasping his life out.
Your mother lies dead back there;
you’ve covered her poor little body
with sand to keep the jackals from
it. Can you dp it? Will you?
That’s right. Look round now and
let yourself go!”
She felt herself bewitched, be
numbed, yet mystically alive to a
thousand tragedies. Her eyes
rolled around the staring throng,
and made out Tom Holby gazing
down at her from his camel and
pouring sympathy from his own
soul into hers.
1 hen she flung her head from
side to side in a torment of woe,
cast her head back, and heaved her
big eyes up into the cruel brazier
of the skies, seemed to see God
peering down upon the little multi
tude, and moved her lips in sup
plication.
She felt the words and the
anguish wringing her throat, and
the tears came trooping from her
♦yes, ran shining into her mouth,
and she swallowed them and found
them bitter-sweet with an exulta
tion of agony.
There was such weird reality in
her grief that the director’s glasses
were blurred with his own tears;
the camera men were gulping
hard.
As her upward stare again en
countered Tom Holby’s eyes she
saw that tears were dripping from
his lashes and that his mouth was
quivering.
Tl»e sight of his tears sent
through her a strange pang of
triumphant sympathy, and she
broke down sobbing,• would have
^fen ffi the tjad, if jUfgftijrc
had not caught her ar:a drawn her
into her arms, kissing her and
whispering: "Wonderful! Won
derful!”
She felt a hand on her arm and
was drawn from Le.a's arms into
a man’s. Her shoulders were
squeezed hard by big hands and
she heard a voice that identified
her captor as the director. He
was saying:
"(joel bless you! That was the
real stuff' You’re a good girl!
The real thing!”
Titer, she began to laugh and
choke, became an utter fool.
from a distance were ragged
and forbidding. The burnt-almond
mountains were hot and sharp
edged gridirons to her feet. The
sun came blazing forth and seemed
to spill upon her a yellow hot
mass of metal that slashed her
about the head and rolled over V.»r
shoulders in blistering ingots •
A stone rolled under her tool .m l
shook her from her balance. She •
wavered, clutched at nothing,
whirled, struck, bounded from the
hard rock, fell and fell, and then—
a smashing blow, blackness, silence.
A young Indian girl chasing her
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“God bless you. That was the real stuff. You’re a good eirl”
This was her first experience of
the passion of mimicry. She was
as ashamed as glorified, as drained
yet as exultant, as if a god had
seized her -and embraced her
fiercely for a moment, then left her
aching, an ember in the ashes.
The director was already calling
the mob to the next task. She
could not help glancing toward
Tom Holby. His camel was
moving off with the crowd, but he
was turning hack to gaze at her.
i'e was tic’••mg his head in ap
‘ yiovul ind .he raised his hand in!
[ a salute of profound respect. 1 r
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Mem’s sin had led her to the
edge of paradise, and then drawn
her back by the hair.
She was doomed to spend a cer
tain time in increasing heaviness,
and then to die or to go about
thcncciorth with a nameless child
holding on to her hand an anchor
ing her to obscurity.
Slit found a place as maid in the
home of a storekeeper at such
wages as he could afford. She he
man tilt sordid routine of her tasks,
1 ut, contrasting them with the
.amour of playing tragic rolts, she
n't herself entombed.
1 la.-n the summer heat began
and grew sc? fierce that het em
•>!■ . ' r and his Lruiy went to the
stas..ote. *
hhe spent rnren .hought upon
the letter home tha» she had not
yet written, that she must v’rite it
eycr slit* were to go home again.
Tin: whole purpose of this long.
! >ug journey into loneliness vfas to
lc able to write that letter; a.id it
nau not yet gone.
Every time she made the begin
ing lier hands flinched from tlu
•>'ing pen. But one night in a
frantic tit of histronic enthusiasm
she dashed off her fable, sealed il
in an envelope, and dropped it
after dark mi the mail box.
Darling Mamma and Papa:—
How can I write the terrible
news:' I can hardly bear to think
of ft, let alone write about it. But
my darling husband passed away
ir. the dexert. 1 cannot write you
the particiriari now. f0T I am too
agitated and grief stricken and I
do not want to narrow yon with
details I know your poor hearts
vvfl. ache for me, but I beg you
not to feel it too deeply, because
I am trying to be brave. And I
remember wlAit you taught me,
that the Lord giveth and the Lord
taketh away. * * * I cannot
write you more now. I am in no
need of money and I will come
when I get a little stronger.
All the love in the world from
Your loving •
a r it Mem. <*'
After she had slipped the letter
irrevocably into the mail box she
realized that th’e postmark of
Falm Springs would be stamped
on the envelope. Her place of
concealment would be disclosed.
Still, it would not matter. She
was a widow now ie the minds of
her people and she could go back
to^ them and face the future in
i ^he mountains had a beckoning
look always, and on this afternoon,
when a cfouued sky gave a ttttle
shelter from the sun, she set out
to obey an impulse to climb as for
as her strength would take her.
The exertion of climbing was
more than Mem bad bargained for
29w mm* jut total ip tatsto
stray pony about the sand had seen
Mein stumble, then fall; had heard
the thump of the body on cu >hien
ing sand; had run to the nearest
house and told what she had seen.
Mem was taken home. The village
doctor did all that his skill could
do. *■
Though she had never dared to
visit him, he knew of her, and
knew her as a widow. When she
was strong enough to be talked to
he prepared her for bad news.
“Am I to be crippled for !;fe?”
she cried. ^ __
"No," he sighed. “You will bear
no marks of your accident. But
you will not—but your other hopes
and expectations—will not be real
ized.” •
She was dazed and he was timid,
and he had some difficulty in mak
ing her understand his bad news;
that she would not be a mother.
She bore this blow with a forti
tude that surprised him.
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And now Mem was weak and
woebegone, at the bottom of the
cliff of life. She had never climbed
very far, bui she had fallen far
enough to give both soul and body
an almost fatal shock. She was a
drudge in a poor family in a
scorched settlement abandoned by
all that could get away.
The only inferiors she could see
were a young widow named Dack
and her hve-year-old boy, Terry.
Mrs. Dack took in washing.
The boy Terry was of the Ariel
breed. His fancy g rdled the eaitk
in forty minutes. He mimicked
birds and animals and often cov
ered his mother with terror and
unused chagrin by imitating her
dients with uncanny skill.
Once the child caught cold- in
all that heat!—and Mem sat bv h:s
bedside through several smothering
nights, while the back-broke 1
mother slept. Mem exercised her
skill in making up little dramas to
while away the tedium of the long
nigltfs and to keep the wakeful
child’s mind from his cough.
During his illness Mem received
a letter from Leva Lemaire, saying
that she had just seen in an old
paper a paragraph describing "Mrs.
Woodville’s” fall from the mountain
and her miraculous escape from
death. Leva expressed the utmost
sympathy and prayed that her
beauty had not been marred. She
added:
"But if it has, you can still find
something to do in the movies.
I've given up trying to be an actress
and taken a position in the labora
tory projection room, correcting
the films. It’s cool and dark and
interesting. I think I can get you
a place, if you’ll come up. There’s
no excuse for a woman of your
education and charm wasting your
sweetness on the desert air. Do
come! I’ve sent my three children
out to their uncle’s ranch. You
could live here with me and my
friends.” '• —• *
The thought of working in the
dark and the cool was a hint of
Paradise to Mem. , Iiirrt, (
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Confirmed Next Week
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MSiSHUS. %
f tt/ ltelcria Kutinsten
He to whom your soft lip yields
Atnl perceives your breath in kissing
All the odors of the fields
Never, never shall be missing.
—IVtn. Browne.
Summer Perfumes
Perfumes and summer have an un
deniable kinship. The nature scents
are never sweeter or more alluring
than at this fragrant season. And
not unnaturally the woman who
values charm and daintiness adds to
her flower-tinted wardrobe nests of
new, flower-scented sachets; to her
dressing table the atomiser, summer
perfumes and toilet water which will
enable her to rival the freshness and
allure of her surroundings.
In selecting summer perfumes il
may help you in your choice to re
member that a light flower or bou
quet scent is much more suitable for
hot days than a heavy cloying ori
ental scent.
Heavy thickly sweet fragrances
convey an illusion of heat. A rain
drenched lilac has a fresh delicate
scent infinitely more delicious on a
warm day than tne heavy sweetness
of a tuberose or narcissus.
"he same principle holds true of
youi own perfum • An exotic lan
gorous blended scent is much less
successful than a faint fresh flower
odor.
Some fastidious women even ban
ish their perfume bottles at the first
sign of summer weather and use only
Toilet Water, a light diluted perfume
water that is delightful to use on the
hands and face in an atomiser or in
the bath.
Let me warn you that the scent of
perfume cannot be used to disguise
the odor of perspiration so be sure
before you spray a flower essence on
your gown that you have scrupulous
ly attended tc ihe use of a deodorant
which will keep you immaculately
fresii throughout the day.
Experiment a little with the dainty,
not too lasting summer scents and
select one that not only pleases you
most but that best expresses your
own daintiness and personality.
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CHICKEN FENCE CATCHES MUSIC
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, A strip of chicken fence wire nailed
In the top of a radio cabinet Is mak
ing the favorite copper wire aerial
look to Its laurels. Long distance
radio reception without the aid of an
outside antenna was found successful
for the first time when McHurdo 811
i ver began to u§e 8-polnt sof«ron wire
[ mesh to receive signals In Tils newly
] created sets. Miss Ardette Cadwallader
demonstrated this Inside antenna at a
recent convention of radio men In
Chicago. »
The wire used for the antenna is
tinned. Instead of galvanized as
chicken wire, since tin Is a better con
ductor at received signals than zinc.
Every.' point where two wires cross
forming the mesh Is carefully "sol
, (tored together” with tin for good ether
wave contact. A "lead" wire connects
this inside cabinet-antenna with the
antenna binding poet in the chassis.
As a result the set is simply plugged
into the lighting outlet like a floor
lamp, and no further installation is
necessary.
“Less static is picked up by this
newly devised type of antenna on the
inside of a cabinet than by an aerial,"
Mr. Silver, president of Silver-Mar
shall, Inc., explained. "Engineers have
been working for years to eliminate
the bother of outside antenna' *,on
nections. This has been accomplished
by the exceedingly high amplification
in this set, which makes a piece of
chicken fence wire inside the cabinet
the only contact necessary to receive
broadcast programs, even from- dis
tances of a thousand miles or more.*
The United States Department ot
Agriculture has a bulletin that is
tree for the asking. It is known as
Farmers’ Bulletin 1471 -F, “Canning
Fruits and Vegetables at Home.”
Every part of the canning process
is described; illustrations showing
just whai is meant, and a full ex
planation of the reasons that lie be
hind recommendations made is also
included
On the success of your canning and
preserving depends much of the pros
perity of your special department in
farm Management. So do not risk a
single failure through spoilage or
second-class results. Send for a copy
of that booklet before you are con
fronted with too many harvest fruits
and vegetables that require immediate
preservation.
For Bridge Luncheon
Tomato aspic salad Mayonnaise
Cream chccsc sandwiches
Olives
Sponge cake filled with whipped cream
to which chopp-d pineapple, nuts
an ! cherries a e auded
Beef Roll
3 ’bs. chopped beef, 1 lb. chopped
fresh pork, 3 eggs, 6 crackers rolled
fme. 2 this, milk, 1 fsp. black pepper,
1 scant teaspoon salt, 1 this, parsley,
2 this, ouiuu chopped fine. Butter
size of an egg. Mir well. mdd in
roll, bake 45 minutes isi u*
water, basting frequent 7.
Corn Pudding
Cut corn from cob, boii rv{-’ ten
der, add 2 eggs slightly bcaun, i i'P
salt, y* isp. pepper, 2 this, melted
butte*, 1 pint hot milk; mix well and
turn into buttered baking dish; bake
in slow ouii until firm and lov.u.
Tomato Relish Saur.3
10 hr;r^ tomatoes, scalded andpeeT
fd , 2 medium sued c? i«ui*. 1 mall
red pepper. Grind a!! through a meat
grinder, then add 1 \u cups vine rar, 1
cup sugar. tsp doves. B< ii until
mixture is quite thick. Dottle v.ltnc
hot.
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Special Sandwich
Blend together with French mus
tard or spicy mayonnaise, equal quan
tities of minced tongue and chopped
cooked mushrooms. Spread between
thin buttered bread; remove crusts,
cut in triangles.
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Easy Sponge Cake
4 eggs, 1 cup sugar, 1 cup flour, Yi
tsp. salt. Beat whites of eggs until
very light; combine other ingredients
with beaten egg yolks; fold in beaten
wdiites of eggs last. Flavor with
lemon or almond. Bake slowly at low
temperature.
An Economy Hint
Never throw away the bones left
from a roast or fowl. Put them ia
cold water and cook for, several hours
and use this stock for gravies or as
the foundation for a vegetable soup.
Care of Floors
Tf you would keep your floor* In
best condition, and with least effort
to you—sec that they are waxed and
polished onre a month. Then dusting
over them between times will be suf
ficient to keep them immaculate ..
"AFTER'THE SHIP.COMES INTO.'PORT-':
Nowhere, not even in the Navy is such strict discipline maintained
as in the Merchant Marine. This is true not only in our owni ^ship
ping fleet but doubly so in the Merchant,Marine : n d
master of a ship is not only the judge but the jury as well aboard
his vessel. After the ship has been nosed into her pier by a fleet ot
noisy little tugs, and the last passengers have gone down the gang
plank to greet their friends, then, and not until then does the-crew
get a real chance to relax. Thousands of people came down to the
piers to wish their friends welcome. The lie de France, °,f
floating palaces of the French Line carries a crew of 812 and has
accommodations’ for 1638 passengers. The recreation period for the
crew is naturally looked forward to eagerly, for then there is a let
up in strict discipline maintained aboard an ocean grcyhotihdlike
this. The photograph shows how some members of the
their recreation period. Music is loved by all, so out comes thet
portable Brunswick Panatrope with the jazz records they preter
' and dance and song reign supreme. The lower phcdo shows a v,ejv
at the pier hours before the departure of the ship. The insert shows
the most famous statue in the world, the Statue of Liberty, grace
fully bidding welcome to visitors from the old world and S)"10®1*
izing the liberty and freedom of our land. (Hei^ei^Photo^N^^i^j
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