Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 144, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 November 1928 — Page 8

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CONCERNING THE ACTION AND CHARACTERS LILA LATHAM becomes the bride ot HERBERT WARE, but the picture if an old sweetheart. CAPTAIN JACK FARQL'AIIAR, lurks in her mind. She confides her plight to her best friend, DOROTHV CAINE, an artists. A mysterious letter awaits Lila at Dorothy’s studio, and it brings back memories of the war to her. On returnng from her honeymoon, he is told that a communication from the War Department is awaiting her. In a flash, she is back In the past. Memories 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 latttr. It is only then that Lila feels herself free to marry Herbert. The letter from the War Department tells her that Jack’s insurance is to be paid to her as his fiancee. Later, Herbert gees Lila being interviewed by a man who has called in regard to the insurance. She tells him the man is a suitor of Dorothy’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 bracelet and puts it in her jewel-case, as a surprise. There he sees a ring—a diamond circlet that looks like a wed-ding-ring. • He asks for an explanation, and she says the ring belongs to a friend, MRS. VARNEY. She 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 sight of a certain man in a shoo 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 organisation reveals her identity. Herbert, meanwhile, meets Mrs. Varney in a restaurant and the talk turns to jewelry. She tells him she loves rings—except wedding rings. They are a badge of servitude. Herbert furious at Lila, rushes hom to demand an explanation. Dorothy, who is with Lila when he arrives, tells him the ring is Mrs. Varney’s, that it was given her by a French nobleman to whom she was engaged. In compliance with her family’s wishes, the engagement was broken. Some time later, Mrs. Varney’s husband innocently reveals to Herbert the fact that his wife har never been abroad, L CHAPTER XVm. The Self-Confident Husband ON the following afternoon, when Herbert left his office, he went to his club, Instead of returning home, as had been his custom since his marriage. He was annoyed with Lila; he wanted to think out the many perplexing things that had arisen to comlicate his life, and he wanted to think them out clearly, safe from contact with her disturbing loveliness. Though he was far from admitting it to himself, he knew subconsciously that Lila beguiled him out of every particle of firmness; she could make him forget to be cross, to be suspicious, or to be disapproving. It hurt Herbert’s pride to think of how weak he had been. In the matter of the previous evening, there was that incident of the broken cup and the spilled coffee. Lila had apologized prettily for her awkwardness, but it was not like Lila to be awkward. Herbert was convinced that the episode argued nerves, and he detested nervous women. And why should Lila be nervous? But n.ore serious was the new light on the episode of the ring. While Herbert had discussed his forthcoming business deal with Varney—a deal considerably concerned with his new manager, Gilroy Holmes—he continued to think of that casual statement of Varney’s that his wife had never been abroad. And after Dorothy Caine’s pathetic story of the tragic foreign romance. Hardly had the door closed behind Varney, when Herbert turned iipon Lila. , "That story of Dorothy Caine’s about Mrs. Varney’s love-affair with a French marquis—that was all a lie, wasn’t it?’’ Lila had had time to prepare for this onslaught. She yawned prettily. a u u "rvh, dear, I’m weary tonight! V-/What was it you were saying, darling, about May Varney?’’ "I believe you heard me the first

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On Monday Crystal bought a Spanish-Engllsn dictionary and a Spanish conversation book—not that she’d ever use any Spanish she might learn to converse with Pablo Mendoza! Certainly not! But she spent her! noon hour looking up the word for "love” and the. Spanish for her own name, finding it to be Cristal She tried trilling the R softly, ac Pablo might do, if he ever said it softly .... But of course it wao perfectly absurd. She never would see him again, unless she just happened to meet him as she crossed the Grayson pasture .... After all, Cherry had invited her to come again, and she and Rhoda were good enough friends to warrant her going to the Jonson farm as often as she pleased Although she had studied Spanish until she was in danger of being late to the office, Crystal stopped at a florist's shop and ordered flowers to be sent to herself at the Hathaway home. She frowned for a long time ove" the card to be enclosed with the half dozen yellow roses. "Pablo’s much advertised poverty would ae count to Tony, at least, for the meagemess of the floral offering Her dictionary and her concentration resulted at last in these words, written in what Crystal hoped was a dashing masculine hand: "For querida mio. Yo amo tu. diamente mia. Pablo.” “For my beloved. I love you, my diamond,” she translated to with great satisfaction. Back at the office she was intoxicated with the double excitement of her fictitious love affair

time,” said Herbert firmly. “According to her husband, Mrs. Varney has never been in Europe.” "Are you sure he knows?" countered Lila calmly. Herbert flushed angrily, “Your code and mine must be very different, Lila. I can see no excuse for secrets between husband and wife.” “They are sometimes very handy!” thought Lila fervently. Aloud, she said: “I don’t believe I understand Just what you’re trying to say.” He made an impatient gesture. “Didn’t Dorothy tell me that the ring you claim belongs to Mrs. Varney was her betrothal gift from a French marquis?” Lila nodded wide-eyed. “And didn’t Varney himself just say that his wife had never been abroad?” demanded Herbert triumphantly. "But—did Dorothy say she One can have a love affair with a Zulu, for that matter, without ever going to the South Seas.” Herbert hadn’t the best memory In the world. He racked his brain to remember whether Dorothy had said that May Varney had met the French chap abroad or in America. The distinction was significant, and, fortunately for Lila, it completely escaped him. nun THE incident ended in apparent victory for Lila. But the following day found Herbert still disturbed. Life with Lila seemed to be taking cn too many of these sharp clashes, and he always seemed to come off second best. Herbert felt that it wasn’t fair. Moreover, he was enjoying none of the peace ana serenity he had expected to find in matrimony, once

HOLD SNYDER RITES G. -A. R. Post Directs Funeral of City Pioneer. Funeral services were held at 2 p. m. Monday for Charles William Snyder, 84, who died Saturday at his home, 1920 Bellefontaine street, after a long illness. The Robert Anderson post, G. A. R„ of which Mr. Snyder was a member, conducted the services, and the Rev. Ambrose Dunkel, pastor of the Tabernacle Presbyterian church, delivered the sermon. Burial was in Crown Hill cemetery. Mr. Snyder retired from active business, with the Johnson Lumber Company, five years ago. He served in Company A, One Hundred Thirty-second Indiana Volunteers, during the Civil war. Mrs. Ella H. Parker, assistant postmaster here; Mrs. Mary E Blackledge of Montgomery, Ala., daughters, and a son, Albert E. Snyder, with the Service Printing Company, survive. BILLION PAID TO U. S. IN AUTO OWNERS’ TAX Association Urges Use of Money for Good Roads. Timet Special WASHINGTON, Nov. 6.—Since 1918, automobile owners have paid into the federal treasury a total of $1,100,000,000 in excise taxes on au - tomobiles and parts, the American Automobile Association reported today. The federal government’s part in the road-building program since 1918 has been $613,000,000. The government’s share in mileage now under construction will be SIOB,748,746. The A. A .A. is urging application of all automobile taxes to the road building program by the federal government, on the theory that good roads bring national prosperity, and argues that the government still “owes” motorists $500,000,000 worth of good roads.

and the knowledge that an actual “Pablo” existed and wanted to see her again. She rashly asked Miss Morse, her eyes looking shy and girlish: “I wonder what Mr. Pruitt’s attitude toward a secretary’s marrying would be, Miss Moi'se? Is she wanted to keep on working for just a while, I mean.” “You’d better ask him,” Miss Morse snapped. “In the meantime, Miss Hathaway, there are all those letters to get out to delinquent accounts.” Crystal’s eyes flashed hatred at the heartless older woman, but there were tears in them as she turned toward her typewriter and began the hated form letters. How she wished she was going to be married! A girl was simply ground beneath the heel of capitalism. A woman’s place was undoubtedly in the home, and what a home, she, Crystal, could make, if she only had a chance! Her fingers flew over the keys, tapping with the brisk efficiency that had won her her $5-a-week raise. Even Miss Morse had to admit that she could type faster and more accurately than any other stenographer in the offices. The girls had had a speed contest one rainy luncheon hour, and Crystal had won the crown of linked-together paper clips by typing ninety-three words a minute, with only three errors in the tenminute test. put who wanted to be turned into a speed machine in some other man’s office? . . . Yes, she would see Pablo Mendoza again! (To Be Continued).

the, anxieties of courtship were over. He loved Lila jealously, but he resented being always upset about her. To suspect her, to suffer, to make a scene, only to discover his mistake, and be forced to make overtures of peace, every twentyfour hours, was too much. For a long time Herbert sat in the library at his club, pretending to read, but really pondering over the problem with all the deliberation that he would have given to an important business matter. He finally came to the conclusion that there must be no more of this hectic stuff; it was up to him to put a stop to it. He reminded himself that Lila was younger than he, motherless, practically fatherless, for all the attention her paternal parent had bestowed on her, and frightfully spoiled. He, Herbert, must be firm, though kind; not too indulgent, but not too exacting. This resolution reached, and congratulating himself that he had the head to analyze matrimony and steer away from the rocks of discord, Herbert methodically folded his newspaper and prepared to betake himself homeward. He was on his way to his waiting car, when a page stopped him with a letter. “This has Just come in the last delivery, sir." Herbert glanced at the letter-head on the long envelope. It bore the name and address of a well-known war charity. He opened the envelop and his eyes nearly popped from his head. (To Be Continued) Copyright, 1927. Metropolitan Newspaper Service. New York.

How Bright Is Your Baby?

Baby doesn’t need to learn to walk. Some babies creep before they walk. Some babies just get up and walk. All babies, however, practice “setting up” exercises. How many of these exercises did your baby practice? Underscore YES, if you have seen your baby busy with an exercise and NO, if you have never noticed him practicing one. Then turn to the key. 1. Turning over. Yes? No? 2. Kicking his legs. Yes? No? 3. Raising his head from Yes? the pillow. No? 4. Kicking just one leg and Yes? and then the other. No? 5. Lifting his shoulders as Yes? as’well as his head. No? 6. Pulling himself to a sit- Yes? ting position. No? 7. Pulling himself to a Yes? standing position. No? 8. Taking a few steps; while he holds on to a Yes? chair, for example. No? 9. Taking a few steps by Yes? himself. No? 10. Running. Yes? No? 11. Walking on the outer sides Yes? of his feet. No?

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1. At seven days he can do this if he dees not have too many clothes on. 2. Very early in his life he enjoys kicking his legs aimlessly. 3. This he does at 3 months. 4. When lying down with his clothes off he does this a 3 months. 5. This he does at 6 months. 6. At 8 months he does this. 7. At 11 months he can do this. 8. At 13 or 14 months baby can take a few steps while holding on to something. (A little girl was afraid to walk alone until one day 6he saw her father’s cuffs on a table. Then she walked over to the table and put on the cuffs. For several days she walked only when wearing the cuffs.) S. Most babies are toddling about by the time they are 16 months old. 10. By the time he is 18 months old he is not only walking easily and well, but can run. 11. Babies trust their weight upon the outer edges of their feet. That is why they wear out the outer edges of their shoes first. Next we will talk about the 9-months-old baby. (Copyright, 1928, Science Service, Ine.) givesTholy land talk City Pastor Entertained by President of Seminary. Dr. M. G. Kyle, president of Xenia Seminary, St. Louis, Mo., entertained the Indianapolis Ministers’ Association with an illustrated lecture on excavation in the Holy Land, at the monthly meeting of the group in Roberts Park church, Monday. A discussion of “Bible Lands of Today,** by William T. Ellis was led by the Rev. J. Ambrose Dunkel. Leonard C. Trent, president of the association, presided at the meeting. TREES FOR WASTE LAND x Walnuts Being Planted in Strip Mine Area of Indiana. By Times Special PETERSBURG, Ind., Nov. 6. Walnut treets may flourish in years to come on land now barren in this section of Indiana due to strip mining of coal. Planting is now in progress, following successful experiments a year ago. Under supervision of Eli Hendricks, Patoka Coal Company superintendent, 135 bushels of walnuts are being planted by a force of twelve men. _ .

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Mrs. Garfield returned to Washington at once. For eighty days, while the President suffered at the door of death, she watched at his side. Physicians finally decided he must be moved from the heat of the capital to survive. The President was taken to Elberon, N. J., where he died two weeks later. The next day Vice j President Arthur took the oath. (To Be Continued)

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