A Fascinating Story of Marriage and Divorce CHAPTER XLIII < x If Aunt Em has been in the house next door, her voice could inot have been more clear. "Everything’s just fine, Love- Joy,” she said. "I baked the .baby his birthday cake and put a pink candle on it.” ' It was not until that moment that Lovejoy realized that yesterday had been young Tommy’s first birthday. “You didn’t let him have any of the cake, did you?" she asked anxiously. '• “Well—just a tiny bit,” said .Aunt Em. “And I soaked that in his milk.” Lovejoy groaned into the mouthpiece. But Aunt Em was running along cheerfully and didn’t hear her. “Now, don’t you worry about anything,” she was saying. “This ain’t the first baby I’ve taken care of, remember! I brought you up all safe and sound, didn’t I?” “Yes. But pleace don’t give Tommy any more cake!” Love joy wailed into the telephone. “Keep him on milk and orange juice and spinach juice until I come home, please, please PLEASE I” “All right,” answered Aunt Em’s voice. “Don’t yell at me, Lovejoy! And you’d better hang up now. This must be costing you lots of money. Don’t for get to send me your address. Better telegraph it.” There was a clicking and bumming of the wire as she hung up. Lovejoy hung up her receiver, too. She sat looking at the telephone for a minute or two with staring, troubled eyes. “She’s been feeding the baby birthday cake!” she said finally to Steve. “Can you feature that?” Steve leaned across the table and took both of her hands in his. “I wouldn’t worry about it, dearest,” he said in his sensible and soothing way. “You told her not to do it again, and it’ll be another year before the baby has another birthday cake. She didn’t say he was sick, did she?” Lovejoy shook her head with its satiny waves and its little ringlets around the ears. She looked like a little girl curled up in a chair in her woolly pink robe. “No, Steve, she said every thing was fine. She said I wasn’t to worry about a thing.” “Well, then, why borrow trouble?” asked Steve. “Run upstairs now and try to get some sleep. You have a big day ahead of you tomorrow. Major Badminton is coming up Headquarters for “Wear-Ever” Aluminum Cooking Utensils • Third floor The Hecht Co. “F St. at Seventh” “UGLY SKIN 7IADE ME AN OUTCAST” :ut almost overnight it was a different story “Skin eruptions and blackheads repel others. Squeezing only made my skin sore and blotchy. I had given up hope of relief vhen a nurse told me to get Z'owles Mentho Sulphur. She ex plained how its Phenol removes i-'fection as its Sulphur clears the skin and the Menthol soothes and heals the sore, raw tissue. Overnight I looked better. And in a few days my skin was clear/* With amazing ease. Rowles Mentho Sulphur safely clears 'the . kin. It is also good for dry skin, itching torture and eczema. In sist on Rowles Mentho Sulphur for best results. AU druggist*. LjOVTE OY * Mfoy — ■> —— - -— — from Los Angeles to talk to you.” Major Badminton had been Sheila’s lawyer at the time she divorced Ellsworth Nettles. “I’m going back with him, and at the end of the week I’ll drive up here and get you and Sheila," Steve went on. “You don’t have to stay here every minute of the time you’re establishing your residence, you know. You can take a lot of trips with me and Sheila *• * * Yosemite Falls and Lake Tahoe and the redwood forests and Death Valley and—" “What about Holywood? Td like to see Hollywood!” Love joy cried, her gray eyes shin ing like stars in the lamplight. “Steve, I’ve longed to go there ever since I was knee-high to a grasshopper! I’ve read about it in the moving-picture mag azines until I think I could find my way around it, blind fold!—We’ll drive down there, won’t we, Steve?” He nodded, smiling at her enthusiasm. “Yes, if we can get Sheila to go. She loathes the place,” he said. “She’ll kick if we try to get her past Santa Barbara. The next morning at break fast Lovejoy spoke to he about going to Hollywood. “You won’t like it, Lovejoy,” she said lazily, glancing up from her plate. “But it’s only a hundred miles from Santa Barbara. You and Steve could drive down there and back in a day—and have hours to spare besides.” And so it was settled. ♦ * ♦ Major Badminton came the next afternoon and Lovejoy sat in the cool, shadowy hall of the ranch house and told him all her troubles for two hours. He went away late that night, assuring her that she would have her divorce in a few months without any doubt. “And if that husband of yours tries to make any trouble,” he said, shaking hands with her, “we’ll just threaten him with his own affair with the Shane woman.’* IV seemed odd to hear him speak of Norrie and Tom in that way—“that husband of yours” and “the Shane woman.” ****** v**v» K/**i***v nvnjwii, wiiuiia o waiiia jjaiuaia iiuuoc, What Do You Know? ANSWERS TO TODAY’S TEST Questions on Editorial Page 1. Shakespeare. 2. Hat. 3. Stephen Foster. 4. Dirigible balloon. 5. Magellan. 6. June. 7. Hawaii. 8. Connects the North Sea with the Baltic Sea. 9. Bolivia and Paraguay. 10. One year. 11. Ves puclus. 12. Socrates. 13. Roman. 14. Richard. 15. Birds (Copyright, 1930, King Feature* Syndicate) A DROP OF VAPEX BRINGS INSTANT RELIEF FOR COLDS Evert cold has its day, but it’s a •bort day when you use Vapex. For Vapex is swift and sure. 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I . ■■■ * ♦ I With the first breath.. .you feel your cold vanishing THE WASHINGTON TIMES Present, Past and Future Wives Amiable, Fay King r —- ■■"'■■■■—l ■ ' n,PB PREstHT vsAre ? jjfrkSyL iaUl r —j — /SwMi f jf Y \ HF [J'cK '\ I . JwlhWWw’ wfe “U ' Im. \ HH' S \S \ ■■ a&M ' ■ \ i n I Ls-h * s/lllnWu i 111 11 <1 SHHI / Him By FAY KING WHEN we think of the so-called “eternal triangle/* we think of unhappiness and heartaches, and that it is like a square peg trying to adjust itself to a round hole. Steve went away with him. On Saturday morning he came back. He came back in a huge black and white tour ing car decorated with Cali foria license plates. “I went up to Santa Barbara and got your car,” he told Sheila. “The caretaker wasn’t any too keen about letting me have it. I imagine he and his wife have been having a fine time, driving it around, the country.” ( Sheila’s eyes hardened. Lovejoy was beginning to find out that there were depths of hardness in her that were like layers of blue quartz under a lovely meadow. She had away of scolding the chambermaid and complaining about the meals that surprised and shocked Lovejoy. ‘Well, they won’t get a chance to drive it. from now on,” she said briskly, "I’m go ing to sell it and the house for just what I can get for them—and the sooner I do it the better!” She spoke as if she had no real use for either of them— the house or the great ex pensive car. On Monday afternoon they drove into the courtyard of Sheila’s Santa Barbara house. B ? mL \1 nh i g VAPEX W I VAPEX S K fl ■B . w r Vjii.yj/ A drop oo yovr Itcniciltorcltfof VAPEX Brootho your ooW owoy *B«frV.BsXt*M* . It was a rambling one-story house made of natural red wood. Its latticed windows opened upon a hillside garden that looked like a giant bouquet of pink and yellow roses. At the bottom of the garden ran a wide automobile road, and beyond that was the ocean, blue and wide and quiet on this windless afternoon. “How can you bear to part with this house?” Lovejoy asked when she and Sheila were un packing their bags in a big double bedroom that overlooked the hillside. “It’s the most heavenly place I’ve ever seen!” “I can bear to part with it because I spent the most un happy days of my life here!” Sheila answered stonily. “Every room in the place reminds me of some quarrel that I had with that husband of mine!— It takes more than rose gar dens and hand-carved furni ture to make you love a place, Lovejoy.” I MOTHER, . GET MUCH WHITER f |XL TRY |T NEXT W AS HD A Y, CLOTHES THAN YOU . PLEASE JUST TQ TRY RINSO IN YOUR WASHER ♦ ? mi/ wl r . U-> NEXT WASHDAY MY DAUGHTER TOLD ME I NEVER SAW YOUR WASH AB ° UT A WONDERFUL LOOK SO SNOWY! AND OUT “ RINSO. IT LOOSENS ON THE LINE SO EARLY. TOO ™ E D ‘ RT UKE MAG,C Sky KI “ m ' ng> I RfWo I I—r 1 —r But there are triangles and triangles, the angles of which vary very much. In the world of fashion and fame, 'where fortune and ambition are so abundant, the eternal triangle, three-sided as it is, fits perfectly into that circle. Well, that was ‘ certainly true enough, Lovejoy reflected. The house on Tudor Road had been filled with expensive and beautiful things. But neither she nor Tom had known an hour’s happiness in It, some how or other. "And, as long as I own this place. I’ll come back to it every now and Sheila was going on as she laid her gold-backed brushes out upon the dressing table. “And I don’t want to see it any oftener than I have to * • *” She walked over to the win dows and stood there, with her back to the room, looking out at the shining Pacific. “I don’t believe a woman ever quite forgets the first man she loves,” she said after a minute or two. “I divorced my husband and I’m glad of it— but a few weeks ago when I heard that he had married again I went all to pieces.” WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1980 Lovejoy found herself woun dering how she would feel when Tom married Norrie Shane —if he ever did marry her, She probably wouldn’t care very much, she decided, Tom and Norrie and the old life seemed very dim and far away now. It was the present with its change and its thrill and its luxury and ease that counted. It was-Sxve who was important to her now—Steve, whose boy hood lingered in the comers of his eyelids when he smiled at her. 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COOPER, 1508 14U1 St. N.W. 0. FELDMAN. 325 Cedar St., Takoma Park. W. A. FINCH, 2414 19th St. N.W. M. B. FLYNN, 551 Panna'. Av*. B.E. FRIENDSHIP BATT. A ELEC. SERVICE, •42.38 Wiaeenain Av*. FRED M. HAAS.2OI9 Shod* laland Av*.' N.B. HANNIBAN A MItATTISAN CO, 3524 12tb Former wives, present wives, and future wives seem to mingle most amiably. The men in the case being so rich that they can afford to be nice to each other. “I’ve had him!’’ says his former wife. “I’ve got him!” says the present wife. “I’ll get him!” says his future wife in perfect harmony! later the operator reported a two-hour delay on all calls to the east. “You’d better cancel the call dear,” he said to Lovejoy at half past eleven. “We’re starting at five in the morning, and you ought to get some sleep. It’s a long drive down to Holly wood and back.” So Lovejoy cancelled it and went to bed. She had talked to Aunt Em the night before and everything at home bad been all right then. 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