Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 149, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 November 1928 — Page 14

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CONCERNING THE ACTION AND CHARACTERS lAEA LATHAM becomes the bride of HERBERT WARE, but the picture of an old sweetheart. CAPTAIN JACK FARQUAHAR, 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 returning 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 officialy reported dead until five years latter. It is only then that Lila reels 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 financee. 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 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 lyacelet and puts it in her jewel-ease, as a surprise. There he sees a ring—diamond circlet that loks like a wedding-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 this lull, the sight 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 ‘ -the office of the organization reveal, jer 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 home 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 has never been abroad. Lila manages an explanation of this, Only to have anew crisis loom. r Herbert learns of her generous gift to the fund of disabled war veterans. She says she was merely the agent for her uncle, who wanted to honor the memory of a soldier son. And then Dorothy telephones that a cable has just arrived from Jack Farquahar. He is alive and well and on his way home. Lila faints.

CHAPTER XXIII The Returned Lover IILA awoke next morning, after 1 a night of fitful sleep, and her first thought was: "This is the day that Jack Farquahar returns.” One moment she was glad that this man whom once she had thought she loved, was alive, instead of lying in some obscure French cemetery. But the next, with a keen instinct for self-preservation, she admitted frankly that it was difficult to be glad that he was returning. Herbert, believing that she was still asleep and not wishing to disturb her after her supposed indisposition of the previous evening, went away without coming to kiss her good-by. She was glad of that, because she felt so miserably disloyal to him. If he knew that she was going, that very morning, to meet a man to whom she had once been pledged in marriage! For Lila knew that she would have to go to meet .'ack Farquahar. It would be dangerous not to go. Otherwise, he would try to locate her at her father’s house, and the whole wretched business would have to come out. • She wondered why her memory of him, once so dim, had become so vivid. She wondered why she felt an almost craven fear of this man who had, to all intents and purposes, risen from the dead. He had become an ugly, menacing fact, threatening her happiness and Herbert’s. While she bathed and breakfasted and dressed, she tried to settle her thoughts upon the coming Interview. What should she tell him? Did she dare risk the full truth? That seemed the best and simplest course; and yet it was too cruel, in the face of that pledge made on thd eve of their wedding. In the end, she decided to make no definite plans for the moment—to

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Having tea at the same time and place were Tony Tarver and Harry Blaine. Tony had been forced to divide her days into at least four dates, to satisfy the demands of her horde of admirers. “The only meal she eats at home is breakfast, and not always that,” her mother complained to Pat Tarver, but she was scarcely less proud of her daughter’s social success than was tne adoring father. And so it happened that the reporter and the girl who had been raised on humble Myrtle street were witnesses of part of the tea-table comedy being played by Cherry Jonson and Alan Beardsley, with Faith as a foil for the “star.” “Act one, scene two, of a little comedy of married life, entitled ‘Wavering Wives,. ” Harry Blaine remarked cynically. “Not that Faith Hathaway is ‘wavering’ or will ever waver,” he added fervently. “She's the kind of wife that makes a fellow believe in the otherwise unholy Institution of marriage.” “Words to that effect, uttered by one Tony Tarver, to one Crystal Hathaway recently, and received with much indignation,” Tony laughed. “Me—l’m ‘aein’ marriage myself. “Got me a swell little anti-mar-.riage complex. The Freud fiends who say you get rid of a complex by pulling it out into the open and analyzing it are all the bunk. My little pet complex is bigger and fatter every time I take it out to look at it.” Harry Blaine gave her a searching glance. “I—guess I’m rather sorry to hear that, Tony. I was telling

let Jack Farquahar set the pace. Perhaps, after all, he had changed, as Dorothy had suggested. Perhaps he was coming to ask her to release him from his pledge to her. When she was dressed, she stared at her reflection in the mirror, trying to see herself as she would look to Jack Farquahar. In the slim, chic woman in her soft gray furs, with her bright hair almost hidden by a toque of dull blue and the faintest pinik of excitement tinging her fair skin, there was little trace of the girl in a mud-stained uniform, pale and tired, who had stood with her hand in Farquahar’s and made a marriage pledge. St SHE took a taxi to the pier and stood on the edge of the crowd, while the big liner slid into her berth. She hoped devoutly that she wouldn’t have the bad luck to run into an acquaintance. To have to explain to Jack Farquahar on the spur of the moment would be difficult, and there was always the chance that Herbert might learn of their meeting. She waited a long time. Passengers came down the gang-plank, encountered friends and relatives, kissed, laughed, and hastened away. Lila began to wonder if she would recognize Farquahar when she saw him. She grew frightened at the thought that they might have passed each other, and that he might, even now, be on his way to the Latham house. But, just when she had decided that she had missed him, he came. "Lila!” Her hand was In his. He was looking down at her and his gray eyes were devouring her. "Jack!” And then, to her horror, he swept her into a swift embrace and kissed her. She struggled to free herself. "Oh, Jack, you mustn’t! People—” He laughed happily. "There’s no one in the world for me at this moment but you!” Herheart sank. This didn’t sound as though he had changed. She said hastily: "It’s wonderful that you’re alive and well, after —after all that time when I—we — thought—” “Tell me you’re glad!” he commanded boyishly. "Tell me you’re happy!” "Why, of course. Jack!” She pressed his arm with her gloved hand and smiled up at him. In his own happiness, he failed to find her manner a little strained, more than a little distrait. He was blind to everything, except the joy of his return and seeing \ her again. He tucked her hand under his arm. “Come! We’re going to celebrate with an enormous luncheon, and you shall tell me everything, and I shall tell you everything.” ana WHEN they were in a cab, he said: "Where’s the smart place to lunch, nowadays? I dare say restaurants haye come and gone, since my time.” She considered, a bit panicky. It would never do to take him to a place where Herbert, or any of his friends, might be lunching. So she said: “fDh, the small foreign places are the fad now.” He made a wry face. "Thanks, but I’m saturated with the foreign stuff. I’d like something 100 per cent American, if you don’t mind.” She smiled and suggested an uptown hotel that was remote from the beaten track of lunchers. She experienced a swift stab of repugnance, because the quiet, discreet, rather dim restaurant of this hotel was especially popular with people, who, like herself. preferred not to be seen in their own haunts with their luncheon companions. But, she reflected, Farquahar couldn’t know this, and she really didn’t dare take a chance. “We can talk here,” she said, as they were seated in a corner of the shaded room, where the occupants of the adjoining tables seemed

one of the chaps at the office that you’re the ’gorgeous girl’ of 1928, the most wholesome, gallant, unset -conscious embodiment of the be;.t characteristics of the younger generation.” Tony’s eyes misted gratefully, but she answered gaily, mockingly: “Thanks, Harry. That was a *vow of a speech. I hope you’ll jot it down on your cuff so you won’t forget it before you write “The Biography of Antoinette Naomi Tarver.’ “Or shall if be ‘Memoirs,’ with you as the ghost writer? I hear that’s the ticket these days, and ‘Memoirs’ sound so much more intriguing.” “Don’t kid me so hard,” Harry begged. ‘But Tony—Say, you aren’t really serious about this anti-marriage complex, ar you? Marriage can be a beautiful and satisfying thing Look at the Hathaways.” “One swallow doesn’t make a cocktail,” Tony reflected flippantly, for she knew what was coming and she wished with all her heart that she could keep im from “speaking.” She loathed hurting men, and Harry Blaine was such a peach .... “I know I haven’t anything much to offer, except the kind of intentions that are popularly supposed to make gopd paving for Hades .... Ambition—loads of it. A fair salary. A heart that is generally described as big, and Tony, it’s just filled with love for you .... “Aw, I can’t say it like one of my characters in a play, but— Tony—” He leaned forward and took her limp hands, his nice face flushed with embarrassment, but his eyes very appealing. To Be Continued.)

scarcely more than murmuring shadows. “It suits me!” declared Farquahar, “except that I’d like more light I can hardly see you, and I’m starved, Lila, starved for the sight of you.” She smiled waveringly. Under the tablecloth she was removing her wedidng ring. She had almost forgotten it. Suppose Jack had seen it before she found out definitely where she stood! However, she was not kept long in uncertainty. He leaned across the table, his gray eyes alight, his lean dark face tense. “I say, Lila, how long does it take to get married in this town? Let’s go and do it this afternoon.” (To be continued) Copyright. 1927, Metropolitan Newspaper Service, New York.

How Bright Is Your Baby?

Baby is not wasting his time while he plays. He is busy learning all sorts of things. When awake be Is never still. What Is he doing? We say he is playing. How do babies play? Does the baby of a year play in the same way and with the same things as a a baby of 6 months? Here are some statements about the way babies play. If you think a statement is true, underline True; if you do not think it is true, underline False. Then check your answers by the key. 1. Baby’s first plays are con- True cerned with his mouth. False 2 These first plays are True sucking and mouthing. False 3. Another of his early games is kicking with his True legs and moving his arms. False 4. He amuses himself by True gurgling and babbling. False 5. To creep is wonderful True fun. False 6. He talks because he loves True to hear himself talk. False 7. Babble games are great True fun. False 8. To say the same thing over and over again is True is lots of fun. False 9. Baby enjoys knocking over a tower before he can build one with his True blocks. False 10. When baby is sick he plays harder than when True he is well. False 11. He enjoys doing the same . thing over and over True again. False 12. When baby is 3 months old he likes to play with True his ball or rattle. False 13. Baby teaches dolly to do the things he is learn- True mg. False 14. Baby’s hands let go of a toy as easily as they True grasp it. False 15. Baby pulls out drawers and musses up things True just to be naughty. False

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True: 1,2, 3,4, 5,6, 7,8, 9, 11, 12, 13. False: 10, 14, 15. (Babies as well as grown-ups like to show that they are stronger than things.) Next we will see how baby uses his eyes. (Copyright, 1928, Science Service, Inc.) EXPERTS TO ADDRESS FARM CONVENTION Indiana Bureau Holds Annual Sessions Here Nov. 26-27. Several nationally known authorities on farm problems will address the annual convention of the Indiana Farm Bureau to be held in Indianapolis Nov. 26 and 27. M. S. Winder, secretary-treasurer of the American Farm Bureau Federation, will speak Nov. 26 on “The Need of a Militant Farm Bureau.” George E. Metzger of the Illinois Agriculture Association, and J. E. Fredrick of Kokomo, president of the Indiana State Chamber of Commerce, also will address sessions of the first of the convention. Professor B. H. Hubbard of the University of Wisconsin, will talk on “The State Income Tax and Its Relation to Agriculture.” H. A. Wallace, editor of Wallace’s Farmer; Charles H. Maier, Los Angeles, and George J. Mecherle, Bloomington, 111., also will speak. STUDENT GIVES BLOOD TO SAVE OLD NEGRO Georgia University Sophomore Sacrifices Pint to Servant. By United, Press MACON, Ga., Nov. 12.—Fred Shaw of Tifton, Ga.. has given a pint of his blood to save the life of Lee Battle, Negro servant of Mercer University. Battle has been confined to a Macon hospital for several weeks, and recently was weakened from loss of blood following an operation. Shaw is a sophomore in the College of Liberal Arts. When an appeal was made for some student to give his life fluid for the aged Negro, Shaw was among- the first to vo unteer. His blood was tested In th<. hospital laboratory and found suitable for the transfusion. Asked why he offered to make the sacrifice, Shaw said, “I did it from a sense of duty. I would give my blood to save anybody’s life.” Spanish Queen Guest in England By United Press WOLVERHAMPTON, England, Nov. 12.—Queen Victoria of Spain and her two daughters spent the week-end here as guests of Lord and Lady Ednam. The Spanish queen attended Armistice day ceremonies and laid a wreath on the war memorial here.

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