Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 233, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 January 1927 — Page 7

JAN. 4, 1927

DON’T LET ‘THEY’ RULE YOUR HOME, MAR YOUR HAPPINEI

Mrs. Jones Demands Big Wedding for Her Daughter Because 'They’ Would Be Horrified Otherwise —Mrs. Newlywed, Likewise, Hires an Expensive Maid. By Martha Lee Who are “They?” "We really should know because “They” set the standard for half our actions and “They” decide more questions for us

than we do for ourselves. ''What would ‘they’ say if we didn’t give daughter a big church wedding?” demands Mrs. Jones of her harassed husband whose business affairs are already trembling in the balance. So, because ‘‘They” would be horrified at the simplicity of the home wedding her father could afford, Miss Mamie Jones has a big church wedding which he really can’t afford, and dressmakers’, florists’ and caterers’ bills trail the affair for months. ’What would ‘they’ say if I do my own housework?” tearfully demands Mrs. Newlywed when her husband suggests that expenses be curtailed until he gets a start. So “They” establish an expensive maid in the Newlyweds household machinery and “They” dictate the expensive living room suite and nifty new car. When, ten years later, Mr. Newlywed is no further along financially than when he was married, “They” heartlessly fall to applaud or appreciate the sacrifices that the poor little man made upon the altar of their good opinion. We wouldn’t buy half the useless possessions that clutter up our mentalities and homes, and we’d be much simpler, sincerer and altogether easier if only “They” wouldn’t be so hard to please and so insufferably dictatorial. What a blessing if some one could run to earth and forever lay this formidable and ferocious “They!” Go to Housekeeping? Dear Martha I,ee: Would vou please Rive us your opinion about the followinß matter? I was married last spring- and wo have continued to live at the home of my parents. My husband is very restless here, however, and wants to go to housekeeping. My mother is much opposed to my leaving here, as we have everything very nice. Decause my husband makes only a medium salary, we would have to start very ordinary if we did start housekeeping. and my mother sa.VB she would actually be ashamed to visit me if wo go into furnished rooms. I am between two fires in this and don’t know what to do. What would you say? MRS. M. E. M. I should suy that it would be better to be in your own quarters, even if they are simple, especially as your husband feels as he does. No doubt your mother started housekeeping simply. Ask her If she didn’t, and remind her that you yvould enjoy making your own little home nest just as she probably did. Wants Him Back Dear Martha I.ce: X am an unhappy girl who has been married. I have two children but am divorced now. My liushond is now married to another girl. They have separated and Miss Lee. what I want lo know is. how can I win him hack? When I got my divorce, he told me he wasn't through with the bright lights and if I would divorce him. he would come bach and marry me whenever he got ready to settle down. Now Miss Lsc, I love him and I think lie 's more mine than he is this other woman's and I think he should keep his promise to me. He drinks and gambles. T don't care what he does if I can have him back. E. M. Well of all queer and contradictory things, I guess a woman’s heart is the queerest. How you can give this man a second thought is a mystery. He used trickery to get his divorce from you. How could you credit his promise made at that time? As you admit he drinks and gambles, can’t you picture what your life with him would be, even if you got him back? As for his belonging

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more to you than the woman to whom he is married, I don’t see how you figure it. Anyway, whichever one of you does not get him is certainly a lucky girl. Choosing Between Them Dear Martha Lee: I am a girl 19 years old. I have been going with a young fellow for about two years. I have also been chums with a girl about the same length of time. Now something has happened that I have to choose between this true girl friend and the boy I love. Now I am asking you to advise me which to choose as I have to quit one for y Dear Billy, as I have no clew to your reason for feeling this way about your friend, I cannot judge. But if I were you, I would not be too determined that one of them has to be given up. Perhaps there Is some way whereby you can keep both the friendship of one and the love of the other.

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RALPH CLUNY. 68, was murdered just before he was to have married frivolous CHERRY LANE. 18. Immediately Cherry disappears leaving a note for her sister. FAITH, saying she could not go on with the wedding. Cherry's elopement with CHRIS WILEY becomes known. News of the murder is kept from Cherry s invalid mother, but she knows of Cherry’s marriage. Cherry has been engaged several times. Once she tried to run away with AL BERT ETTELSON. a married traveling salesman, and was rescued by Faith and 808 HATHAWAY, her fiance. At the inquest, the maid. MARY KEARNEY, telis of Bob jfathaway finding CLUNY. his uncle, immediately after his death. Cherry admits that Cluny attempted to force the marriage, but that she had no knowledge of the slayer s identity. Faith suspects Chris Wiley, thinking he knew Cluny had willed much money to Cherry. “Dad, you’re not eating! You’ll be sick, honey. You look dreadful now. And for mother’s sake, you must keep up. We’ll both go to see her after the Inquest Is over, and she mustn’t suspect anything.” “Looks to me like you two youngsters are forgetting something,” Jim Lane said heavily. "If they get hold of that will business at the inquest, it will furnish them with a motive against Cherry. God have mercy on us if that story gets out.” “Don’t, Dad,” Faith pleaded. "Besides, the story can’t get out until the will is probated, can It, Bob?” “Don’t see how it can,” Bob avoided her eyes and spoke with flse confidence. “Anyhow, Cherry’s got the coroner eating out of her hand, and every man on the jury is convinced she’s the cutest and sweetest little thing that ever ran away to get married to a worthless scamp.” “You don’t think Cherry’ll be mentioned in the coroner's report, then?” Faith's voice quivered with joy. “No, I don’t,” Bob reassured her stoutly. “If they don’t hear about this will business, they won’t be able to pin a motive on her. And she hasn’t tried to lie about being there or'the time she was She’s freely admitted everything, even when it has been against her. That will have weight with the Jury, I tell you. They’ll think she has nothing to hide—and she hasn’t.” “But Bob, everybody’s wondering the same thing—ls Cherry didn't do it, who did? There’s not a shred of evidence to connect anyone else with the crime, and there’s the time element, too. There literally wasn’t time for anyone else to do it. You arrived within five minutes after Cherry had left. You didn’t touch him, did you?” “No. I testified that I didn’t. I saw at once that he was dead. Os course Dr. Paxton made exhaustive tests when he got there. But it’s pretty sure that he was struck down as soon as Cherry left the room—by someone lying in wait to do it, by someone who knew that Cherry would be accused.” ‘ That’s what I’ve been saying to myself over and over,” Faith gasped. “But who, who? The man who made those queer footprints, or someone concealed in the house? Robbery was not the motive. Not a thing was touched." When the Inquest was resumed Chris Wiley took the witness chair. After preliminary questions, and after Chris had been allowed to tell his story of the elopement, an account which corroborated Cherry’s story In all essential details, the coroner asked: “Now, Mr. Wiley, while you were waiting for Miss Lane, who is now Mrs. Wiley, did you get out of your car?” It was a crucial question: it pointed directly toward Cris Wiley as a possible suspect and every person in the room strained forward in eagerness to hear the answer. “I did not get out of my car,” Chris Wiley answered firmly. “Did you see anyone during your wait, either entering the house, by any means whatever, or did you see anyone on the lawn?” “I did not.” "Did you se Mr. Cluny through the open window of his room?” “I did not.” “Did you ever quarrel with Mr. Cluny about Miss Cherry Lane or anything else?” “I did not. I made no effort whatever to dissuade him from marrying Miss Lane. I concentrated my efforts on her,” Chris Wiley smiled slightly. “That Is all, Mr. Wiley, for the present. Call Mr. Charles Reilly Neff.” "Oh, Bob!” Faith whispered In an agony of dread. “He drew up Mr. Cluny’s will! Will he tell, Bob? Will he tell?” NEXT: A motive for murder is pinned on Cherry. (Copyright, 1920, NEA Service, Inc.)

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WEEKLY BOOK REVIEW Blood of a Great Actor in the Veins of O'Neill

By Walter D. Hickman Born Oct. IC, 1888—Today still living and the most famous playwright of his day. While living he sees his “old” plays given annual presentations and his new ones with super casts. While living he may read his own biography,” Eugene O’Neill," by Barrett H. Clark, published by Robert M. Mcßride and Company, New York. One does not have to read this story of his life to arrive at the conclusion of this man’s greatest in the theater. In starting at the beginning, Mr. Clark writes in "Eugene O’Neill as follows: “Eugene Gladstone O’Neill was born Oct. 16, 1888, at the Barrett House, then an uptown family hotel, now the Hotel Cadillac, on Broadway at Forty-Third St., New York. He is the son of James O’Neill, the actor, and Ella Quinlan. His father was one of the most gifted American actors, a favorite from coast to coast, and his mother a quiet woman, whose influence over the boy can only be surmised ” The father of the playwright was the actor, who years ago toured the country many, many times in “Monte Cristo.” According to O’Neill himself says that his father made so much money out of “Monte Cristo,” as easily as $50,(W0 in a season, that at the time he did not think it fair to do other things but in his later years, O’Neill, Sr., was full of bitter regrets because he felt that “Monte Cristo" had ruined his career.

Fourth Printing “I enjoy all the hours of life,” wrote Emerson in his journals in 1843. “Few persons have such susceptibility to pleasure; as a countryman will say, 'I was at sea a month and never missed a meal,’ so I eat my dinner and sow my turnips, yet do I never, I think, fear death. It seems to me so often a relief, a rendering up of responsibility, a quittance of so many vexations trifles.” The selection that Bliss Perry has made from the ten volumes of Emerson’s journals, “The Heart of Emerson’s Journals,” has lately gone into a fourth printing, the publishers, Houghton Miflin Company, announce.

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rled Kathleen Jenkins of New York. He was divorced in 1912. It was late in 1909 that O’Neill set out on a gold-prospecting trip to Honduras. I am not going to continue with Clark's narrative but have Just given you enough to show that O’Neill bucked real life years before he started to write and to think. Today he is the leader among modern playwrights. I often have been asked to give readers of this department data on the life of O’Neill. I now refer you to the best possible source—Barret H. Clark’s “Eugene O’Neill,” published by Mcßride. Another Dalton Flay Have just received a copy of a play written by Test Dalton of this city and just published by Samuel French, New York. It is “The Mantle of Lincoln” and Dalton Calls it "A Play for the People.” Dalton has dedicated it to Otto H. Kahn, who, as Dalton says “has fostered and aided the American drama for many years in a loyal and generous manner." “The Mantle of Lincoln” was first presented at the municipal theaters in Indianapolis in the summer of 1924 and ran for two weeks at Garfield Park and at Brookside Park. G. Carlton Guy directed it. At the time of Its first presentation here, I dwelt at length on Dalton's idea of putting Lincoln on the stage. I still think that Dalton has a big idea in this play. And I think it would have a wonderful force for good if it was presented in every school auditorium in this country. There is a definite purpose behind this play. It aids in character building although it is entertainment. WOODEN FRUIT BOWLS Wooden fruit bowls, lacquered in bright colors, have salad spoon and fork to match. They should not be subjected to very hot water, but should Vie washed in warm water and dried quickly and thoroughly.

Stop the Sale of Firearms By Mrs. Walter Ferguson If anything ought to be barred from the mails, it is guns. Reports say an act is now being prepared which will put this matter up to the Senate this winter,„ A similiar measure was unanimously passed by the House last session. If we could prevent the shipping of firearms through the mailA, and then set about regulating the sale of them in all communities, there would be some small chance of our protecting ourselves from the growing criminal element. No man who cannot pass a creditable character test should ever be allowed to buy a gun. The other kind seldom want them except for hunting purposes, although there are a few citizens left who feel safter with a gun lying around, goodness knows why. Anyway, the toll of manslaughter is mounting in the Unuited States each year. The list of honest citizens killed by thugs is appalling. The accidental death list is too long. For at least 90 per cent of these, the gun is directly responsible. Os course, gun lovers will argue that good citizens should arm themselves as a protective measure. But ♦his theory hardly ever works because the criminal always shoots first. And a mere burglar will often become a murdered if he sees a gun pointed toward him. Many law-ab.idtng citizens keep guns in their homes, but they seldom use them. Sometimes they are handled by children, and a member of the family Is accidentally shot, or sometimes somebody gets terribly angry and, because a gun is handy, there is another murder case on the docket. The safest tiling of all is to take

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