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Should a Wife Remain Truej to an Unfaithful Husband? Have you » puzzling love affair on which you need friendly advice? Write to Julia ; Jerome, care of this newspaper. If you wish a personal reply, please send r. stumped, | self-addressed envelope. __I An unhappy wife writes us iron New Orleans. My dear Mrs. Jerome:— For years my husband has been untrue* to me. Every one in our 4 vicinity knows it. They also j know that I have been true to him. Not because I loved him, j I suppose, but because I loved no body else. Now, I do and now I I am contemplating: being untrue 1 to him. What makes me hesi tate is that despite all I have stood from him he will not. I know, stand for any unfaithful ness from me. He will drive me out without a cent and the man , I love is unable to support me as I am used to living. Please tell < me what to do. WORRIED. Do now what you. should have done years ago—get a divorce. With all the evidence you must have against your husband it should be easy to get one. But do it before you are un faithful and you will feel more justi fied in demanding a financial setT tlemcnt. I do not give you any credit at all for being faithful these many years since you had no inclination to be otherwise and since you were evi dently being well supported for your patience. Still, I gather^you are un trained for work of any kind, so if he is well off it is just that he ton tribute to your future livelihood by some kind of settlement. If he were not well off I would say you should shift for yourself, since your virtue has been of a negative sort—deserv- 1 -The Life and Care of Any Good Watch How to Care for Your Watch and Get the Best Timekeeping; Service From It. Follow these simple instructions— ar.d your watch will keep good time. Almost any watch will run lor ing no great reward. I suspect, however, that you won’t take this advice. You will go ahead and try to have your cake and eat j. too. »vnd you are liable to lose both your cake and your appetite if you do it. And, as a final *iap, my dear, I must say tbaS y-v.tr new love must not be very impassioned or you would be willing to sacrifice your luxuries for it. To be sure, it is nice to have both love and luxury; but, in your circumstances, in trying to have both you may lose both. months after the last particle of oil on the bearings has disappeared. And it goes v ithout saying that in jury will follow as surely as night follows day. I* must be overhauled p-riodically—taken apart entirely removing old dried-up oil and dirt; reDolishing parts, to prevent them being spoiled for good timekeeping, oil in a lady’s small watch will last about six or eight months It takfes a grain of dirt the size of a needle point to stop the watch. Dirt will get inside. When you buy an automobile, you are instructed how the machine must be looked af ter constantly, for which work you pay a service station. Your tiny watch is thousand times finer machine, running con stantly, so isn’t it reasonable to have it attended to occasionally for a small service charge? Stuttered His Way Into Fame » , ■ - - A Bootblack, Whose Only Asset v/as an Impediment of, Speech, Suddenly Finds Himself Famous and Wealthy. * OSCAR SMITH lie was known as the Paramount studio bootblack until recently, when he created a sensation in “The Canary Murder Case.” Now he has a big con tract and a bright future in Hollywood. f By Ruby Berkley Goodv/in WHAT Flo Ziegfield has done for the American {Hrl, Hol lywood seems intent upon do in^ for the Negro bootblack. During the filming of Mctro-Gold wyn-Mayer’s all Negro drama, “Halle lujah,” Harold Garrison, known on the lot as Slickum, rose to the height of assistant director. Then at a re cent filming of one of the Cohen comedies on Christie lot the studio bootblack was called in and given a very important part in the picture. While Paramount has gone even farther by giving a bookblack a long term contract. Oscar Smith, known as the “Cute Kid” of Central avenue, has been Paramount’s official bootblack for years. Every since the passing of that most beloved actor. Wallace Reid, he has held that position. Be fore that time he was valet for the great movie star and a bond of friendship grew up between them that has always been the talk of the studio. Oscar became friend, and confidant to “Wally," whom he affectionately called “My Boy.” Oscar had talked quite a while be fore I noticed the stuttering that won the contract for him. “I was born in Topeka, Kansas quite a few years ago,” Oscar cheer fully stated. “I was s-s-sixteen years old b-before I could t-talk at all. I w-went to school tho’ for I c-could listen and in that way I learned a whole lot. I r-remember one day I got a w-w-whipping. I was innocent of any wrong doing, but I couldn’t say anything. I never blamed the t-teacher for Mr. Roundtree thot that he was d-doing right. He was a f-fine old man.” When Oscar finished the grammar grades he came west to Phoenix and for five years he played tunes with his shoe rag on the boots of the fas tidious in that town. Still being guid ed by the saying, “Go west, young man, go west,” he left Phoenix and came to Los Angeles, where he se cured work as head porter in Cook sie's barber shop. It was here that he met Wallace Reid and it was at this time he won the nickname, “Cute Kid” When Oscar was younger he was short and slender, now he is inclined to be a little rotund. For years it was his habit to blaze forth three or four times a day in a different and re splendent outfit of clothing, from hat to spats. But with the passing of years, Oscar’s taste has quieted down. He now goes in for real es tate- and he has acquired some very valuable holdings around and in Los Angeles. “Since I have been on P-paramcunt lot I have been playing small parts in the pictures—bellboys, w-waiters, elevator boys. When Richard Dix made ‘Warming Up’ I was the base ball team's mascot; in ‘Beau Sabreur,’ I played the part of the faithful Sud anese servant.” Sometime ago when S. S. Van Dine’s “Canary Murder Case” was adapted to thp screen, a stuttering bellhop role developed. Oscar was cast for the part. That was the biggest role he had ever played. When the picture was previewed in a Holly wood neighborhood picture place the house almost became hysterical, laughing at Oscar, the frightened, wide-eyed, stuttering bell-hop, who had become unwillingly entangled in the weird murder case. Far-sighted officials saw great pos sibilities in Oscar, so they rushed to him with a contract and told him to sign on the dotted line. Pootblacking may be a lowly pro fession and one despised by many, but Hollywood bootblacks have learned that “the way up is down,” and they have been called in to work while many a white collar man has stood impatiently outside the Central Cast ing office, waiting for a call that never came. TESTED RECIPES FOR THE WEEK-END RUMMAGE PICKLES From British Columbia Chop 2 quarts green tomatoes. 1 quart ripe tomatoes, 1 medium cab ] bagc, 3 large onions 3 roots celery land $4 teaspoon peeper. Sprinkle with cup salt and let stand over S night. In morning drain through co I lander, add 3 pints vinegar, 2 heapin'* ! cups brown sugar, and one teaspoon mustard mixed with r. little vinegar Cook for about one hour and seal. A FALL SALAD Don’t neglect the . alad merely be cause summer fruits and vegetables are bidding you farewell for a few months. Many, and in fact most, of the sal ad ingredients are year-round foods, so if you have been catering exclu sively to seasonal delicacies, iearn immediately how to prepare salads from other constituents. Lettuce is new obtainable at any I time. So are oranges, lemons and i bananas. If you can’t get frish pinc I apple, you can get it canned—and ! this applies to cherries as well Whipped cream is a year-round deli cacy. So try this salad and make it a l Autumn favorite. Spread crisp lef tuce leaves on a salad plate. Cover with several slices of oranges on ! which you place two long strips of pineapple aryl one cf banana. Too with a heaping mound of flavored whipped cream and .. cherry, or col orful berry of any kind. Just before serving sprinkle the frut and lettuce with a syrup made by mixing several teaspoons of sugar with the juice of one orange and half a lemon. ► DILL PICKLES A Michigan Recipe Fill jars with even-sized cucumbers, with one large dul flower mixed ! through the center of each jar, and cover with the following liquid: 2 quarts water cup (scant> fine salt 1 cups vinegar Heat to boiling and pour over pick les while hot. Seal at once. This method assures dills that are crisp, delicious and sure to keep. - —o HOW TO PREPARE VEGETABLE DISHES Many wemen fail to get the most cut of their vegetable dishes, either because they use too much water, or fail to add a touch of sugar. Too much water absorbs the flavor of the vegetable. A dash cf sugar in the water (a small quantity of water at that) brings out the full flavor of the vegetable, and also supplies a bit of quick energy food to the diner. A DELICIOUS ORANGE DISH Put peel from eight oranges in cold water; heat to boiling point, and cook gently, until very tender. Drain; put in cold water, and, when cold, re move membrane and soft portion. Boil one cup sugar and one-half cup water until syrup spins a thread; put in peel, and cook gently, until syrup is evaporated and peel looks clear. Drain on wire cake cooler, and leave in open air until thoroughly dry. Ctore, and use as required in cakes and puddings. Oandied lemon peel may be pre pared in the same way. THE ENIGMA OF THE EIGHTIES & L BLIND TOM ' One of the remarkable cases of musical genius was that of Blind Tom, an uneducated Negro born of slave parents, who could play the most difficult classical compositions with the utmost ease. The fact that he was mentally weak was another factor that added to the bewilderment of the music lovers of the eighties. He has been included in Ripley's famous best seller, ‘'Believe it or Not.