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Bound to be Read
Fu* RENT
Did You Ever Stop To Think
BY EDSON R. WAITE
She
wouldn't
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APARTMENTS
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will prevail until further no-
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price* os it humonly possible to long experience 6n3
greot resources
By JACK GAVER
United Press Drama Editor
YES BUT THE
CURPENT WILL
CARRY US RIGHT
past rrif we ,
ONLY MAO OARS '
in the
refresh-
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For Men, Women and Children
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whose appeal to women is'irresistible
(well, this is a play). Romaine Bcl-
croix is the young wife who finds hyr,,
pleasures away-from home and fatrt
desperately in love with Blanc. Pierre,
the trusting husband, is ignorant of.lht,
and his wif.^-gfraid of hurting
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port, he calmly produced a divorce de-
cree which he obtained after “hitch-
hiking'' to Reno, Nevada, and declar-
ed he couldn't support a woman who
was no longer his inate. The court,
however decided differently and order-
ed him to pay $5 a wewek .refusing to
take cognizance of the Nevada entry.
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FOR SALE—High grade Cotton
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tion of his late wife and life.goes on.
Edna Best, Basil Rathbone, and Earl
Itafrimorc as the wife, lover and hus-
band respectively are well cast and
Miss Best is especially to be copimend-
itvork The play, in a num-
bey of scenes, moves rapidly and
shows good direction save in one re-
(■UWBW'IMaiMWheeeaMMawwMaeMMaWI*
'Louise read Nancy's last letter
again. Not a word about when she
was coming home. Not a bit of
news in it, eithei. What was the
Home Was a ranger’s cabin,
perched precariously, Nancy
thought, on the barren mountain
side.
“But 1 thought. . trees . . ?’
■lie began a little uncei.ainly.
Jinowing that she was expected to
Kike it and feeling lost for words.
“Oh, we’re up above the timber
Fne,” Koger exulted. “Look!
.We’re pn top of -the world. You
— ran see all over the valley; There’s
ML Dana and there's Glacier and
llancy_____the timber is in the way,
out beyond the green lie the
Meadows ... .our meadows, Nancy,
where we found each other—see!”
Nancy followed his finger, but it
*11 looked alike to her. One peak
was as jagged and rocky as another.
it was all too big and strange to be
• (pitfiliar and friendly.»-
than his brown skin. While he
went into the lean-to kitchen and
started dinner she lay back on her
. . happy . . . Presently she
smelled coffbe- and the pungent
| smoke of sixsling bacon. Lying
‘ half asleep, she almost
her own r6om and Louise getting
papa’s breakfast in the kitchen
downstairs.
course it’s
i.. well, if
„_____ ____d the girls
Nancy will be back,
sets about to poison him as the lesser
of two evils.
The plot is discovered" in time by
a physician, and the wife, thinking her
case hopeless, drowns her self.: The
husband marries a worshipping rela
* .J- -iv-s-dy
spect. Much of the play consists of
love scenes and these are marred by
the perpetual clinches and breaks; It
all went something like this: clinch,
etc. After a little bit of this sort of
break, speech; clinch^ break speech.
■thing one get sthe idea tliat an endur-
ance contest was underway. Apparen-
ly Mis* Best ired lire . . , she commit-
ted suicide.
However, "Mjello'* is one of the few
bright spots in the latter half of the
season.
_ “The Beliaiuy Trial” was a long
time in reaching New York as a play.
First this excellent mystery story was
a magazine serial,.then it was a book,
then a motion picture and finally a
play in Boston. Seeing the play now
in New York leads to the conclusion
that its production here was too long
delayed. ‘ What appeared to be a re-
freshing mystery as a story turns out
to be just another of those plays with
its setting in a court room wherein the
witnesses parade in and out until the
time!”
“I’ll bet there aren’t!” she mar-
— voll»H pat(<. Ijp the pillows on the
neat army cots, straightening a
pile of old magazines. And in-
wardly she was wailing, Oh, why
doesn’t he bring in the bags and
show me where to wakh. Oh, dear,
he’s so fresh and enthusiastic and
I’m so tired and«dirty!” ...—
She took off her hat, the lovely
» brown hat that had been new a
i few short weeks ago and was
- *- ipe already. In
™m, —i light from the
■st window he saw with a
- start that she was very pale
cerise velvet-
oiu
crow, rubumg it into mama that
way, Louisethought, angrily,
striking loud chords in the hope
of drowning her out.
But above Lou’s music, above
mama’s timid offer of more tea,
Mrs. Craig’s voice rose deter-
minedly :
“By the way, I met that Porter
woman who' took Nancy to the
High Sierras. Sbe .was at. the Pres-
cott’s garden party yesterdays,
though why they invited C—
creature 1 don’t understand. Com-
mon! My dear Kitty, she’s the
most ORDINARY—”
• Louise fumbled, choked and
looked appealingly at mama.
To Kitty Hollenbeck’s everlast-
took the blew bravely. She did
not even wince. With her tor-
mentor’s sharp eyes upon, her she
swallowed hard and then she mur-
mured, “So Jridtse
they’re so devoted to Nancy. I ffi
surprised she has stayed as long
as she has, but of course they’ve
been traveling all the while and
-that does help to pass-the time...
Cora, a little more of the nut
bread?”
Mrs. Craig waved it away with
a glittering hand. “No thank you,
dear, and I must be going.- I have
to stop at Madame Marie’s for
May Belle’s new dance frock. My
dear, the child has a closet full of
chic things, but she MUST have
the new one for tonight. These
girls, when they’re in love! Lucky
for* you that Louise is so sensible,
Kitty. I always say to May Belle,
‘If you’d only be more like Lou
Hollenbeck, not always out with
some BOY I—but there I They’re
only young once.. .1 MUST go...
lighter and Kitty, if you feel equal to the
Telephone Numbers You Ought
To Know
The advertiser* listed below offer special advantages
to you when you call them on the telephone- Watch
Nancy staying so long with them?
Mama couldn’t undirstc.nd it,
either. Now that Aunt Ellie had
gone htmie hnd »he didnt have to
make custards and junkets for her,
*M **** *”»d twice as much time on her
hands and twice as much oppor-
tunity wertry,
CHAPTER-XX.
ROGER held her at arm’s
length His whole face •
shining Every bit of him.
With the Summer drawing to a
close any number of smart func-
tions were under way and Nancy*
wasn’t there. May Belle Craig
was going to tinisn her Russian
River season with a Venetian
water carnival. Cura Craig
dropped in .o remind them of it
and asked again for Nancy,
W hile her motor with- the
liveried Oscar waited outside, she
drank three cups of mania’s best
jasmine tea, aud her -sharp eyes
darted about the shabby room,
resting now on the worn place* in
the.carpet, now on the mahogany
chair with the cracked rung, then
back to mama's old brown silk
dress with the patch under the
arm that she hadn't had time, to
change.
Louise, pretending to.be wrapt
tai her music at the piano at the !
other end of the room, heard and
winced at every word of Mrs.
Craig's fashionable, gossip, kndav-
ing how iimiiiu was xirffering Be-
cause she couldn t boast about her
girls.
T om his crisp yellow Hair to his
polished brown boots, radiated
good news. _L____1_____:
He said, “Nancy, hid girl, we're
going back to the tall timbers.
I’m al! through here. We’re going
Lame."
Z»Q BUILDING MATERIAL
DO Sherwin A William* Paint*
and Varnishes
FARMERS A MERCHANTS
LUMBER CO.
“The Home Builderr*
• ? »a,ru?.N“« ■
I don’t know w'hy she"SHOULD
come here, an old lady like that
coming to total stranger,! Really;
Peter . . . you ... 1 if.
UNREASONABLE?’ i
* ‘ “"reasonable,” he said
.. My own mother. If
she isn t welcome in my house, 11
don’t know where—” • ' I
°i.n,y thiPkinK of her. She
wont be happy here, away from
the cows and the chicken* and
thengS~ M“ma WCpt openly
It was a relief when the door- ~
bell rang. Louise dashed to an-
SWPT It.
A boy with a long box of flow-
ers. ‘For Miss Nancy Hollenbeck.1
Sign hei'fc, please.”
With a queer feeling in the pit
of her stomach Louise accepted his
untidy bit of pencil and signed
where the grubby forefinger
pointed. Flowers ... for
Nancy. ...
“Louise—I wish you’d shut that
door. There’s a draft, and my
head aching, already—”
Louise tame into the living room '
holding the box. A hole had been '
cut in one end and a forest of
■terns stuck out. “They’re for
Nancy,” she said stupidly.
(To Be Continuod Tomorrow)
Dr. Riley C- Aimstrong
Chiropodist
Preston 2872
Gulf Bldg. Houston
whner* w,... ;
i Not Welcome j!
, a'tty..v 0,knbw‘k nostrils dil- ‘
HFRFv..Yonr moth"r’ Visit us?
“Where Clser. He took a cigar
out of the row he always kept in '
«irP°Cwet and rare,y 8tnokedhim-
seu. He was trying so hard to be
n on c nalRXML. «««•:*■
Katered at Poatoff»ce at Brenham, Texas, at second class matter
■g Mai ar Carriar, one year (out of State >6 00) in State ........... 150«
____ ___F.—-Jersey cow fresh
milk, Edgar .Matchett.—27-4t 17-4t?
FOR SALE—Porch Swings, Hickory.
Swings. Regular price $12.00-$ 14.00.
Close-out price $5.98. A real value. G.
Hermann Furniture Co.—25-tf.
FOR SALE—Some board frames,
suitable for light weight building... Mx..
IS aize. 10c each; 31x45 size 1 Sc each
at Banner Press.—Tf. ;
culprit confessed along about H
o'clock. Frances Noyes Hart, the
author of the novel, collaborated with
Frank Carstarphan to write the play.
FOR RENT—Furnished apartment
modern convenience*. South
Austin. Phone 800.— 14-tf.
FOR RENT—Furnished apartment.
Private entrance and garage, hot wa-
ter and private bath. Phone 222. Mrs.
William Wendt.—3*tf.
prtse.
It is seldom that I ever read a book
at a single sitting. But this is that
kind of a book, and though the “I.
couldn’t put it down” expression is
o one lose' recdliettion of semi-
official war memoirs is that of hasty
glances through poqderous volumes
written by bristling old gentlemen of
the Civil War seeking to prove that
if General Whoofinpoof's brigade had
been a such and such a place, and
(Jenetat tyjmoxis’s cotjis- had not been
rnrred 'dif-
ferent” would have "happened, General
Jershing’s “My Experience
World War” (Stokes) were
ing. ’
True, these two volumes
maps sufficient in number and detail
guest because be is poor. She et-
cournei the attentiotu of fach
Bearner, wealthy married men, | there, half asleep,
who, enamored of Nancy, withes [ thought she was home again, in
to divorce hit wife, On a mountain
trip, Nancy falls in love with a
handsome ranger. Roger Decatur.
Leaving her chaperones, the rich
Porters. Nancy, alter a violent but
brief courtship, secretly marries
Roger. Her folks at home wonder
at her continued absence In Reno
FOR SALE—Cut Howers and flora
designs. Phone 198. Schubert, Flor-
ist, 1206 S. Austin St.—237-tf.
FOR SALE—Cut flowers and floral
designs. , Mrs. Dick Schmid. Phone
396,—237-tf.
FOR SALE—Well improved farms at
reasonable prices and suitable term*.
G. A. Kunkel.—-278 tf 8-tL
rm ijSingtaTSre it?’
she promised warmly, holding tight
■ to his hand. “Oh, Roger, don’t
leave me . . . don’t leave me alond
in this lonely place!”
He was so proud of the interior,
of his own crude but not inartistic
attempts to make it homelike. He
. pointed out the book cases made
of packing.boxes, the barrel chair,
-■ „ the kitchen cupboard, the Navajo
“I tell you there aren’t many
vs who could bring a girt into
in without planning ahead .of
All Jthe co-operation is
•given your physician in
, the filling of prescrip-
tions when he prescribes
for you. Pure, fresh and
full strength ingredients
mal^e up all of our pre-
scriptions—no cutting of
quality—everything as
ordered. Prompt deliv
ery.
Phone 34
TRISTRAM
PHARMACY
Fred Heineke, Prop,
Vice-Prewdeat
Managing-Editor
By H. ALLEN SMITH
United Press Book Editor
'From Day to Day” by Ferdynand
Gotel (Viking Press) comes to us
heavily laden. There (• a stirring tri-
bute in the way of a forewood by John
Galsworthy. The book is the May
choice of the Literary Guild. And the
back flat contains a Delancey Stqeet
dozen of effusion* from British critics.
Goetei's first novel to be rendered into
English, in fact fairly stagger* under
it* burden.
Yet I am quick to congratulate the
Literary Guild for it. 1 spent four sol-
id hour* with it—until the last page
' —and with scarce a move
Venetian carnival we’d love to
have you. though of
REALLY for the babe
you CAN’T eotne, set
anyway. E_____
won’t she?”
“Yea, indeed. —
THINK of missing ft,” mama said
firmly. i
“And don’t you dare fail us,
Louise!"
“I won't?’ Louise promised
brightly, hurrying to open the door
lest Mrs." Craig change her mind
about going.
She was a long time coming
. - tlwk - -------
waited ' anxiously, strained
‘company smjJe” still on her face.
To quiet ber nerves she nibbled
on a sandwich. She was brushing
erpnibs away when Louise, a lit-
tle Dale but otherwise quite as
usual, came back.
The two women eyed each other
almost hostilely.
"Well, there’s no use worrying,”
Loutee began with false cheerful-
ness. .
"Worrying! I’m not worrying.
I could trust my girls anywhere?’
mama cried angrily. “But that
forter woman, leaving three un-
chaperoned girls in Reno, rushing
t0 -7 U »et int® *>-
Itea L WJy you let her go '
with them. You should have had
more sense. You never think of
y® • ■ ■ nobody . . . my head . . .”
1 he rest was lost in tears.
3uiptly 1^’uisc <ot th* as-
pirin and mama’s smelling salts. I '
Then she went into the kitchen to
start dinner. Her own head was
aching, but what’s a headache'’ I
Mama nagged all through din- .
UPF. •
o Government official. How can you become an intelligent
buyer t One way, he »ay», I* by reading label* Io make sure
quality and weight are right. He would organize the houae-
■ wive* of every community into leagues of intelligent buyers,
meeting regularly for exchange of buying information.
He imagines a meeting of such a dub in which it is re-
ported that store after stare is asking a high price for various-1
sized package* of food, while one store is selling a larger'
package for less Since rt compares favorably with the
more expensive food, the buyers' dub decide* to buy that
brand and so teach other food dealer* a lesson . .
It is just Midi intellrgertf buying that ha* won for A X P so
many millions of regular customer*. Jo them, "A < P" ho*
become a hall mark of reliability They know that foods in
ToTSliS^TEWarCionege student.' 'But
they contain something else—the hu-
man side of the great American ma-
chine built up, with many discourage-
ments and much bickering, in the
±‘rance of l917-18. ... ...
Gei^ral Pershing’s work purports
to Rtve the entire history of American
effort in the World War, It appears
to he conscientious, truthful
straight-from-the-shoulder. It
Edward J. O’Brien, as editor, and
Richard R. Smith, as publisher, have
produced a handsomely-bound collec-
tion of "The Twen.ty-five Finest Short
.Stories”. The collection includes
stories 0>y Kipling, Twain, Poe, O.
Henry, Hemingway, Dreiser, Ander-
son, Harte, DeMaupassant, Daqjlet,
Melville, Meriniee, Hardy, Hawthorne,
Flaubert, Conrad, Balzac, and W. H.
^Tudson. Dont miss .having a look'at
it tlje ne\l time you’re in a book shop.
Julian .Dugid. author of “Greten
Hell”, is not, after' all, an Irishman. He
is Scotch. He said so when he arrived
in New York the other day, on his way
to South America to write a biography
of “Tiger Matt”. Soffljehow the Cen-
tury Company, before Dugiiid canie to
New York, got the idea he was Irish
and the fact was quite widely public-
ized.
.P*** “Iri'eed absently.
And, Tut, tut ... too bad.” But
C°v d j t^at he wasn’t listen-
ing. Nor dil he eat, though they
werexhavmg codfish cak
which he was ordinarily so fond.
No dessert for me, Lou.” He
too3^ the <ornstarch pudding
nia'?t P“H8ed 8’P her
^5kr^^2d tlrnldly> ‘Tjhinlc.my
FOR RENT—Cool, comfortable sum-
mer home, nicely furnished. Phone
9017. Mrs. J. Niederauer.—6-tL ,
FOR RENT—New »ix-room house,
all conveniences. Phone 7U Or 74S-W7~
—Adv_15-tf. _ _____________
FOR RENT—Six room home with
all mode n convenience# close in. Suit-
able for two small families or one
.large one, tice John Mike.—27-3t.
FOR RENT—Several houses. Phone
286-J.—24-6t-pd. ;
vibrant and beautiful, becomes r E_____ ____1
cynical toward love when she gives pillows, eye* closed . . . happy
up Mat Tully at her mother's ye- ■ • lie ppi . . . Presently she
may’serve to give a prbspectlve reader
popular with many reviewers, it Still'
an idea of what to expect.
‘‘From Day to Day” is a novel with-
in a novel, done in a Ynost extraordi-
nary fashion. It is a radical experi-
ment in fiction, thogh the method is
not in danger of being overworked.
The central figure is an author, en-
gaged on a novel and in Iqeeping a
diary 6f the life he leads as he writes.
The text of his noVel is in italics; when
he turns to his diary the type is Ro-
man. The novel he is working upon
Is autobiographical, being concerned
with his emotional experiences during
the war.
The two forms—that of the novel
and that of the diary-^—dovetail nicely
and the strands of the stqry converge
with a-graceful strength. ' . 1 ,J*»-
tral, tragic ’ point. The effect is to
give the reader a series of . sustained
c. Wallops and the conviction,
once he is through .that he has read
That persistent advertising goes right out and brings in customer*.
It will aid you in selling more than you ever ibid before.
Everybody knows that product* continuously advertised will stand
tits most severe tests. I
There is no opportunity to increase sales that compare^wi»b-«>n-
t Continuous advertising not only creates immediate sales, but as-
snre* future sale*. It create* a steady and growing demand.
Continuous advertising will put new fife in any Ipisitics* and keep
it alivtp. - ’ I ‘
Continuous advertising js business-gctting-ai>imsmitii>n. Use
plenty of that kind of ammunition. ” <
Buyers know good, merchandise-when they sec it. Thev expect to
find good things advertised.
Continuously advertised quality always receives an enthusiastic
welcome. ' I 1
The-popularity of well advertised lines is deserved because they
have proved tlv-nselves the best by every test.
FOR RENT—A three or four room
apartment, furnished. W. Hermann.
FOR (TENT—Furnished apartment
- - j ~ CuUonwood St.-
New York.—Henry Bernstein, the
French dramatists, who hasn’t been
represented on Broadway for several
seasons, has finally had the pleasure of
Seeing his latest play, prodi..
ed by Lee Shubert in -association
■ - . A tj. Wood* - f"
_''Melo" bears out its title in that it
is a melodrama of love involving a
husband and wife and the other man
who is the husband's great friend and
the wife's great lover. Manx-1 Blanc.
• great concert violinist, is the lover
MISCELLANEOUS •
BIRD’S FIRE PROOF ROOFS,
goes on qver all shingles. Anyone
who wishes to see one, just drive by
Wm. Acker's home. I will be glad to
give you a price on yours. W. E.
Beach, Navasota, Texas.—26-5t-pd,
Seed for planting of the “Fainou*
Lankhart Variety”. See me early at
the Farmers National Bank. G. A.
7Kunkel,.- -'y?8.t( 8-tf.
FOR SALE—Good Work Mules, farm
implements, wagons, traciv.^.
truck, sorgum and Johnson grass
hay. G. A, Kunkel.-278-tf 8-lf.
.rdly she was wailing, "Oh, why
Uuesnrt he bring in the ®2*,.and
show me where to wakh. Oh, dear,
he’s so fresh and enthusiastic and
I’m so tired and*dirty!” . —
She took off her hat, the lovely
brown hat that had been new a
dusty and out of sha]
the bright afternoon
bigget. ’ ‘ "
cuiltv start tnat sm: ”“■> t~—
and there were dark circles under
her soft brown eyes.
“Why didn’t you tell me you
were tired?” he cried hotly,
snatching her off her feet and
depositing her tenderly m the bar-
rr-i chair “Lord, I m so used to
it I never stop to think how far
;t is . • poor kid, you re all in.
“Fm all right. I’m not the least
bit tired,” she lied happily, snug-
gling back against the pillows he
oiled behind her. Her heart melted.
She looked at him with love and
pride. Tall, bronzed Roger with
the strong, gentle hands and the
funny sunburned hair,
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