Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 141, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 November 1928 — Page 28

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CONCERNING THE ACTION AND CHARACTERS LILA LATHAM becomes the bride of HERBERT WARE, but the Picture of an old sweetheart, CAI'TAIN JACK FARQUAHAR, lurks In her mind. She confides her plifiht to her best friend DOROTHY CAINE, an artists. A mysterious letter awaits Lila at Dorothy s studio, and it brines back memories oi from her honeymoon, he is told that a communication from the War Department is awaiting'her. In a flash, she is back in the PastMemories of her first meeting with Captain Farquahar, when she was doing war work, come to her. She sees again the scene in a little French inn—a dinner to celebrate her. marriage on the morrow to Jack —then orders, that very night, sending his regiment to the front at once. There is no wedding, but, before Jack s brother officers. Lila promises him that she will wait for him—that they will be married when he returns, no matter what time intervenes. Jack leaves and, three days later, is reported missing. But he is not officially reported dead until five years latter. It is only then that Lila feels herself free to marry H^f he 1 Vetter from the War Department tells her that Jack’s insumnee is to be paid to her as his fiancee. p Later, Herbert sees Lila being interviewed by a man who has called in regard to the insurance. She tells him the man is a suitor of Do-othy’s and that she is urging him to cease his unwelcome attentions. Herbert’s unsympathetic , attitude—for he is jealous of Lila’s friendship with Dorothy— almost causes a quarrel. To make amends, he buys her a bracclev and nuts it in her jewel-case, as a surprise. There he sees a ting a diamond circlet that looks like a wedfor an explanation, and she says the ring belongs to a friend, MBs. 'ljhe Explains further that Mrs. Varney gave her the ring, against her protests, as security for a bridge debt. Herbert believes her story. .... . . After vnis lull, the s*ht of a certain man in a shop throws Lila into a panic. He is GILROY HOLMES, an army officer whom she knew in France, and a witness to her pledge to Jack. Lila s next move, since Jack’s war insurance has been paid to her, is to give it to a fund for disabled veterans. Although she makes the gift an anonymous one, a woman in the office of the organization reveals her identity. CHAPTER XV An Unprimed Actress HERBERT WARE sat at a table In a downtown restaurant, eating a solitary luncheon in a state approaching glumness. The big room was crowded with business men and women, singly, in pairs, in groups. There was none of the “hush” about the handling of crockery such as distinguish the up-town luncheon places of big business, but the food was excellent and the service quick; two qualities that appealed to Herbert’s mind, when he was being purely a business man and not a social light. He was gloomy and morose that day, because he was eating luncheon alone. Lila had refused his invitation for lunch at Sherry’s; she’d said she had an important engagement and couldn’t break it. It seemed to Herbert that she had too many of that sort of engagements. His ideal wife—an ideal Lila had seemed to fit to perfection in their courtship days—was one who was always ready to play when he was, but who was quite as willing to slip back into oblivion when he wanted to work. This new Lila, who had emerged since their honeymoon, rather reversed the procedure. Having accepted Lila’s explanation of the mysterious Mr. Jackson and the near-wedding-ring, Herbert realized that he had little to worry him. And yet, something told him that all was not as it appeared on the surface. There was something curiously evasive about Lila of late. He had just come to the concluon that the trouble lay with Doro>y Caine—“she’s putting some of er crazy, independent ideas into Lila’s head; probably telling her not to be a slave to her husband” —when a smartly gloved feminine hand tapped him lightly on the shoulder. “Hello. Herbert Ware! Will you let me sit with you in this bedlam while I wait for my husband?” The speaker was May Varney; she was pretty, well-dressed, and breezy. Herbert welcomed her as a change from his gloomy thoughts. * n a “T’M here to beard the lion in his A den and drag a check out of him,” laughed Mrs. Varney, as she seated herself opposite Herbert.

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Cherry had risen from the big fan-backed garden chair and the shelter of her husband’s arm as Nils offered her the unopened telegram. “It—happens uhat it is from Alan Beardsley/’ Cherry said, not looking directly at Nils and crumpling the yellow sheet into a tight ball in her fist. “He says he is going to be in Stanton on business for a week or two and wonders if he can see me—us. ... Os course I’ll say no, if you like Mils, but —” “But since he saved your life, we can hardly he ungracious to him,” Nils said evenly. “Tell him to come, of course. I was only joking. Tell him to stay with us v/hile he's here.’ ’ “That might not be convenient for him,” Cherry refused quickly. “We’re half an hour from the city by car or interurban, ycu know. 3ut you’re a darling to ..suggest it. Then I’ll wire him that we’ll be glad to see him?” The answer was scribbled upon the blank form offered by the boy, but Cherry did not offer to show either Beardsley’s message or her reply to her husband, a fact which Nils, for all his good nature, did not fail to notice and resent faintly, Crystal decided. So Cherry, the notorious flirt, was at it again. For the thousandth time, Crystal wondered how girls like Tony and Cherry did it, wished she could learn their secret. “These are noble sandwiches, Rhoda,” she applauded brightly. “When you become a famous opera singer there’s going to be a wonderful cook lost to the world.” “But you’ve hardly tasted them,” Rhoda smiled. “Here’s a plate de foie gras, and you haven’t had one of the chopped olive and cream cheese kind yet.” "Crystal’s dieting probably. Everybody seems to be dieting but me,

“Sometimes, even us feminists find it politic to approach husbands after a meal. Jack becomes perfectly mellow after a Chateaubriande steak.” She stripped off her gloves and began to eat olives from Herbert’s untouched hors ’doeuvres. Herbert noted the absence of her wedding ring. He felt a little prick of remorse when he remembered how, at first, he had distrusted Lila’s story abou ; Mrs. Varney’s ring. “Jack will probably turn me down cold,” May Varney was rattling on. “I haven’t a bit of business buying new pearl earrings when I have three sets already. But these I saw today are too precious. I simply must have them.” It occurred to Herbert, even while he smiled indulgently upon the extravagant lady, that women have a cuiious code of honor. He’d imagine that May Varney would have wanted to pay her just bridge debts and redeem her sacred wedding ring before she’d think of purchasing baubles. “You’re fond of jewels?” he asked politely, to make conversation. “Adore them!” she retorted, nibbling at the olives. “I’d wear rings in my nose, if it could possibly be done. In fact, I’m not sure that I won’t some day,” she laughed. “The only thing I’ve ever balked at was a wedding ring, and I’ve no doubt my real reason for that isn’t a principle, as I pretend, but the fact that they’re not splashy enough.” Herbert stared slightly and looked at her with intentness. “You don’t wear a wedding ring—ever?” “Never!”

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A 3-months-old baby can do many things. Yes. if you think he can do the following things: No, if not. Then check your answers by the key at the bottom of the page. 1. Can he hold his head up when he is held in an Yes? upright position? No? 2. Can he sit up alone? Yes? No? 3. Does he wink when you move your hand quickly six inches in front of his Yes? eyes? No? 4. When you shake a bunch of keys in front of his

(SB) r. S'. Or. 4 face will be pay attention Yes? for five seconds? No? 5. Is his thumb held parallel with his index Yes? finger? No? 6. Does he try to take his rattle when you offer it Yes? to him? No? 7. Do his eyes follow a Yes? bright moving object? No? 8. Can he put his rattle in his mouth without hit- Yes? ting his face or body? No? 9. Can he put his toe in Yes? his mouth? No?

and I can’t add a pound to save my life. I’ve weighed ninety-five for years and years,” Cherry contributed, as she again took her seat beside her husband and determinedly drew his arm about her slim, greensilk clad shoulders. “Don’t you want to see the dahlias, Crystal? Some lovely ones have bloomed since you were here last. Old Peter has certainly done himself proud this summer, considering that this is his first season here,” Rhoda suggested, her kind eyes noting that Crystal was flushing painfully at Cherry’s rather malicious remark. ’ “Thanks, Rhoda, but I really must get along home,” Crystal answered, rising and setting her teacup from the stone garden table. “It’s been a pleasure, Cherry. I hope you’ll have lunch with me the next time you’re in town shopping.” “Thanks for the invitation. I’ll call you up, though. I may be pretty much engaged with Alan Beardsley, since he’s coming so soon.” The interurban station lay beyond the Johnson dairy farm and Crystal cut across pastures to reach it, not a little fearful of meeting one of Nils’ prize bulls. She was just climbing over a stile of the fence that evidently separated the Johnson farm from the Grayson’s, when a young man rose from the bottom step of the other side of the stile and stood bashfully and respectfully for her to pass. Crystal was about to assume her sophisticated city-girl air do return his mumbled greeting, when something about the man attracted her attention. He was tall, dark, goodlooking, in a sort of diamond-in-the-rough way, and he was undoubtedly a Mexican. Crystal hesitated—and was lost. (To Be Continued)

TTiSRBERT made a queer sound ■"■■l in his throat. If he’d been eSting an olive, Mrs. Varney would have said he was choking on a pit. “I nearly threw Jack’s poor family into convulsions by refusing to be married with a ring,” the lady promised with a seal-ring of Jack’s, when the minister said it couldn’t be done without, but I took it off the second the ceremony was over.” Herbert reached for water, feeling that he was choking. “But you—haven’t I seen you—” He faltered feebly, for he lied badly, at all times. “Don’t you sometimes wear a—er —circle of diamonds—like a wedding ring?” May Varney shook her head vigorously. “Symbol of bondage—that’s all a wedding ring is!” She dashed into a favorite subject with enthusiasm. “Now, take men, for instance. Except in Europe, no man wears anything to proclaim to the world that he’s got a wife. Look how free he is; look how—” She talked on and on, and Herbert nodded dully, politely, his thoughts in chaos. May Varney was enthusiastic; she believed she was making a convert for the movement to revolutionize modern marriage customs. Herbert wondered agonizingly if Vamey would ever show' up to take this maddening woman away. He resented May Varney as bitterly as if she had delibeiately plotted to destroy his happiness. That it was destroyed was certain, he told himself Lila had lied to him. There was a “Jack” somewhere in her life. After Varney had come and taken May away, Herbert paid his bill and, fairly nauseated at thought of business, betook himself uptown. (To Be Continued) Copvrißiit. 1927. Metropolitan Newspaper Service. New York.

10. Does he pick up small objects with his thumb Yes? and forefinger? No? 11. Does he smile back at Yes? you? No? 12. Can he raise his head Yes? from his pillow? No? 13. Can he reach out to pick up his rattle when it Yes? catches his eye? No? 14. Can he lift his body Yes? from the cradle? No? 15. Does he babble, say Yes? “agege,” for example? No?

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Yes. the normal baby of three months can do 1,3, 4,5, 8, 11, 12 and 13. * If he does the other things he Is brighter than the average child. Nos. 2,9, 15. Usually at 6 months he can do these things. • Nos. 6, 7. 14. Not until he is 5 months old. No. 10. Not until he is 12 months old. Next we will see if you can select the things that a 6-months-old baby can do. fCopyrifcht. 1928, Science Service. Inc.) MIXING OF PAINTS TO BE EXACT SCIENCE U. S. Bureau of Standards Plans to Improve System. lift Scirncr St rrirr WASHINGTON, Nov. 2.—Hit and miss methods of mixing paints soon will be replaced by mathematical methods, when results of an investigation into strength of pigments used in making tints completed by the United States Bureau of Standards are putinto practical use. The bureau has measured with the spectrophotometer the color value of 104 different mixtures of pigments combined with a standard color. The investigation has disclosed the exact strength and amount of a pigment that should be mixed with a standard color to bring a given result. The investigation, it is hoped, will result in a numerical color value being giver! to each pigment instead of the mixture depending on more or less uncertain methods of comparing shades. WEDDED ATDEATHBED Sinking Man Orders Daughter Married; Dies Later. Hu United I‘iihh SYRACUSE, Nov. 2.—Rathe, than force his daughter to postpone her wedding for a month, Morris J. Elstein called her to his deathbed summoned her betrothed and a rabbi and saw the wedding performed. The wedding was scheduled for the next day but Elstein was not sure he would live that long and according to strict Jewish law a marriage should not be performed until a month after the death of a member of the family. Elstein died a half hour after he saw his daughter, Alice, united to Nelson Gordpn Lanzman of Coldwater, Mich. JAPAN PRINCE TO WED Second Member of Royal Family Soon to Marry. lill United I’renn TOKYO, Nov. 2.—A second member of the Japanese imperial family, Marquis Fujimaro, Tsukuba, soon will be wed, the vernacular press reports. Following the marriage of the heir presumptive, Prince Chichibu the imperial household minister, has consented to the betrothel of Marquis Tsukuba to Miss Kyo Mori, fifth daughter of Viscount Takanori Mori. Miss Mori was a classmate of Miss Setsu Matsudaira, bride of the heir presumptive, at the Peeress school here, and is an adept in a system of Japanese short hand invented by her father. The wedding will take place in December.

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