Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 46, Number 112, 21 March 1921 — Page 5
THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, RICHMOND, IND., MONDAY, MARCH 21, 1921.
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The Girl Who Had No Chance
By MARION RUBINCAM
THE BEGINNING. ; Synopsis of Preceding Chapters: Ruth O'Niel and Myra Weed have
"been chums all their iives. When they graduate from high school, they plan to go to the city and live together, Ruth to attend a business school, since she must earn money, Myra to study, if she feels like it. - However, the delightful plans are broken up because Ruth's father is taken , ill and' there Is no money to -send her. Myra goes, however, andstays with her Cousin Emily. Ruth sends her parents south to visit some relatives, and faces a winter alone, and the need of making money. Tim Turner, wiLh whom she has always been in love, asks her to marry him, but she wisely says no. Tim decides to go to the city to make his fortune, in order to marry her sooner. Chapter 19. It seemed to Ruth, when she looked back oil that part of her life years later, that a sudden break happened then. It was as though she had shut ' one door tightly upon all the past, and opened another one, fearfully, into the future. She had, indeed, thought it was like that when she graduated. This idea was helped on by the commencement day oratory, which runs to such metaphors. . But the commencement day was not a break with her old, rather happy school life. She had expected to go to the city, and it was only 'little by little over the summer that " she realized the quite impoverished condition of the family. Tim had been her mainstay. Tim, with his quick, frank laugh, his bright dark . eyes that squinted up with amusement, his easy, happy-go-lucky way of seeing things, took all the trag- : ody out of life for the girl, and made her regard it less seriously. Now Tim, also, was going away. Ruth wondered how she would get along without him. A little of her .splendid courage left her at the idea the long winter evenings with no one special to talk to, the dragging days "This Is silly." she said aloud to herself. And the sound of her voice had not gone yet, anyway! She finished her housework, and with, an air of determination and a great sinking of the heart, she went outdoors on a series of errands. " I am beginning my business career," she told herself, to brace up her courage. Her first stop was at Mrs. Markham's large, old-fashioned frome house with a neat placard in the window that said "Boarders Taken." Mrs. Markham was washing parlor ornaments. She greeted Ruth with ' surprise for she was not intimate with the O'Niels. "I want you to tell me how to run a boarding house, if you don't mind," Ruth said, and sat down feeling that ;ill her strength had gone into this impertinent remark. But Mrs. Markham only laughed. "Lands!" she exclaimed. "Ruth, you don't think of running a boarding house, do you? It's a lot of work and poor pay. People leave without fixing up their bills and yon have to hold
their trunks, and they are always complaining about the food, and they fight i each other and blame you if they don't
get along. They spatter ink on the walls and yell for hot water them as washes at all. Some don't " The tale of woe had reached . the ridiculous stage, and Ruth laughed in spite of herself. Mrs. Markham joined in the laugh, and eventually gave the girl, an insight into the management of a small town boarding 'noose that made Ruth feel she bad acquired lots of knowledge. "You have a grand place for a boarding house," she said finally, "with all those rooms and that big table your mother has in the dining room. But land. Ruth, if you can do that, whv didn't your family do it long ago if you don't mind my asking?" "Oh. it was different then. Father can't have strangers about him, but I don't mind. And anyway the house is too big for me, and I'd like the experience." Part of this was true and part false, and Ruth escaped as soon as she could, feeling she knew more about the boarding house business, but that it was much more difficult than studying irregular French verbs.
Her next step was the largest real estate office in town. "If you have any people who want furnished rooms, please send them to me," she said, and told about the connecting rooms on either the ground or the second floor, and the large kitchen that would permit several people to work independently. "It would be like a separate house, or an apartment, only we would all share the kitchen and laundry," she ended. "I will make a note of all you say," he told her. "But this is a small city and though we hope to boom it, we haven't done it yet. I have more house vacant than I can rent now; but if anyone comes who wants a temporary home, I will send them to you." Ruth smiled up at him and left. Her next errand was to the employ, ment managers of the two factories in the town. Again she explained her house and Its advantages. 'Til make most any arrangements." she said. "I thought that some of the people might want temporary quarters, already furnished. I can rent the whole third floor of our house, or several rooms down stairs, for they are so fixed that they are almost like a separate house." "Yes, but some might not want to get meals at home. They are boarding houses nearby. Or I will rent single rooms and get meals myself. Anything to fill the house up and make a little money." It took supreme courage to talk this way, and Ruth never knew how attractive she herself made the idea seem her serious gray eyes raised to her listener, her fresh, fair skin and the gravity of her girlish face, made an almost irresistible combination. Suppose I type out a little notice, and put it on our bulletin board," one
j manager said. "Then the men passing j back and forth can see it, and if any J of them want rooms, they will hunt you up." Tomorrow Another Leave Taking.
RED NOSE - An i unusual number of complaints about red noses have come to me lately. This is due mostly, I think, to the season and the weather. If there is any tendency towards a red nose, it will be much more noticeable in the winter than in the summer, because of the cold weather, which effects anyone with a poor circulation. One cause of a red nose is poor circulation. One cause of a red
nose is poor circulation of the blood. Another reason why red noses are common at this time of the year is because we have all been eating rather rich, starchy foods and our blood has become rather thick. When we get well into the spring and begin living on the fresh green foods again, the blood will thin and fewer people will be troubled with red noses. Many write and ask me whether there is not some lotion that can be used to stop this. I have no particular faith in the few lotions for this purpose, because the only way to overcome redness of the nose is to find out its cause and then cure that. Improved health, improved digestion, good circulation will all be necessary.
but as the immediate local cause for red nose is congestion of blood in the
veins of the nose immediate relief will be found by stimulating the circulation of the blood eo as to scatter that congestion. This is done by massaging the nose from the eyes to the nostrils and then by tapping it all over with the tips ot the fingers. If this is done immediately after a facial treatment, it will be more effective if you have held cloths wrung from hot water over the. face.
To finish the treatment, rub the nose with toilet water, toilet vinegar or even plain vinegar. As these preparations are astringents, ' they will improve the complexion of the nose and will also help overcome its redness. Myself Yeast can be taken three
times a day with meals as a means of
improving the complexion. It is quite
all right to take it if you are avoiding
fattening foods.
All Inquiries addressed to Mrs. Forbes In care of the 'Beauty Chats" department will be answered in these columns in their turn. This requires considerable time, however, owing- to
the great number received. So, it a personal or quicker reply is desired, a stamped, and self-addressed envelope must be enclosed with the question The Editor.
of the abiding kind. If you really loved .him, you would not have encouraged the other man. If you want to be fair with him, you ought to tell him frankly what you have written in this letter. Perhaps he will tell you to have the other man visit you, in order that you may make up your mind.
He certainly would not want to marry you, if he felt that you were not absolutely certain of your love for him.
You made a mistake in keeping up your correspondence -with the other man. You were not fair to either of the other men, and now find yourself in a predicament, which cannot be settled unless you frankly tell the man to whom you are engaged the exact circumstances. ' ' ..
ADVANCES GRADE IN ARMY. HARTFORD CITY, March 21. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Ritter of this city, received word from their son, William Ritter, stationed at Columbus, Ga., that he had been .advanced from the grade of first lieutenant to captain in the regular army. Captain Ritter
enusiea at me Deginning of the war, and served more than a year overseas
with the fourth division. He i graduate of Culver. ;
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Dear Mrs. Thompson: I am a girl 19 years of age. I am in love with two young men and must decide which one I love better. I am engaged to one of them, with whim I have been going for two years. I went with the other one three years ago and then he moved away and could not come to see me regular, so we quit and 1 started going with the one that I am going with now. The past three years I have been corresponding with the one that moved away, unbeknown to this one. The one, hearing that I am engaged, thinks it cannot be. He writes me and asks me to speak plainly and truthfully and tell him which one of them I love better, after serious and deep thinking down in my heart. But after that I cannot decide. Maybe if I would go with the one that moved away a few times again, I could decide.
Would it be right for me to have the one that moved away tof come and see me unbeknowing to the other one? Also the one that I am engaged to has a different religious belief, which my folks are very much opposed to. They take a fancy to the other one because he is the same believer as I E. M. P. I should judge that If you are not certain of your love to the man with whom you are engaged to be married, that it indicates that your love is not
No Reason to
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