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Zurich Herald, 1939-09-07, Page 2SERIAL STORY HOTi TO ME MARRY hNVBEPaiFE,eaNC. BY EL I NORE COWAN STONE CA$1 OF CHARACTERS JANET DWIGHT, heroine. She was engaged to haedsofaae young architect LANCE Bi.RSTOW, hero, Lance had great dreams for the fu- tnai•e. So did CY NTI^IIA CAIN'] REIL, orphaned granddaughter of great-aunt Mary Cantrell. Still another dreamer was BARNEY McKNlGHT, newspaper- man. But Barney was more than a dreamer, Last Wselc: When Lance tells Janet • he has invested all of his savings in the lots and can hardly see his way out, .haat offers to postpcne the wedding. She tells her aunt, who says she has also had NEWS. CHAPTER :ill Nevertheless, becat::e the old lady's cheeks were pink with ex- citement, Janet asked, "Why, what is it. Aunt Mary?” "I'm not going to leave the Breckenridge, after all." "What?" "I have been waited on by a special deputation, consisting of Mr. Sartorious, the owner of the building, and the house manager, and begged to remain. I gather," Aunt Mary - interpolated dryly, "thanthe financial state of the na- tion has started what threatens to be a general exodus from the Breckenridge to cheaper dwell- ings. It seems that our residence has actual advertising value to the management. 'And of course'," she quoted from an imaginary sales talk, " `we have among our guests Mrs. Mary Cantrell, the widow of Senator Cantrell, and the socially prominent Miss Janet Dwight." "1 don't believe it," Janet ex- claimed. "But go on." "And so," Aunt Mary continued, her black eyes dancing wickedly, "after a suitable period of coy- ness, I graciously allowed myself to be persuaded. Since Cynthia will not be here, I am to have a smaller apartment, with all my cleaning free of charge, at a rent somewhat less than I should have paid at the Avalon. It will be somewhat restricted, but there will be ample space for my best things." "Well!"• Janet said. "So there is a Santa Claus after all." "You should have seen fat little Mr. Sartorious in the role. He fairly perspired with, anxiety un- tilIconsented to stay...: Well, if', we're going to get all those notes oft tomorrow we'd better be getting to bed," No Wedding Bells! Janet found sleep long in coin- ing that night. She kept remem- bering things she was angry with herself for remembering --creep- ing, insinuating, hateful things; Lance's white, set face as he read the story of Cynthia's marriage to Timothy Benton. . . . His angry, "She doesn't really care for that roughneck." ... Snatches of con- versation from Sylvia Grant's luncheon party, "You don't mean you'd never heard that Cynthia and Lance were as thick as thieves before you came home and grab- bed him?" ... Cynthia's eyes as she cried, "Why, you little fool, you don't imagine it was Barney I wanted, do you?" . - , But more hateful than all, those unguard- ed words Lance had tried too late to catch back over the dinner table this evening: "But I always thought your money was in—" And only the day before Lance had professed surprise at learn - in that she had any money at all. Stubbornly she refused to allow her mind to weave the various threads into the pattern they .seemed to want to form. Yet the odious memories would keep re- curring in a vicious circle. Recalling wedding invitations is not a 'cheerful business—nor re- turning wedding gifts: Janet went about it next morning with stony composure. "But surely, Miss Janet, you ain't going to y'etuin all them lovely presents," Marley protest- ed, aghast, "Anyhow, the wed- ding's only postponed, ain't it?" "Rather indefinitely, klargy," Janet said. Fortuii* -e!y only a small frac- tion of the numbers of gifts she knew she would have received had yet appeared. One or two of them Janet hardly dared to look at, -- the Ming vase, and the two Mery- on etching which she had already visioned hanging on either side of the stairway, a set of. handmade tools for the fireplace. And of course she mustn't for- get to notify the friends who were still to entertain fcr her. She dreaded that most of all. So diffi- cult to achieve just the shading of disappointment and happy con- fidence in the future that was the correct note for the circum- stances? .. . Or was there a cor- rect note? . . . Leslie Pugh would be the hardest to fool. Leslie was giving a dinner dance for her and Lance at the end of the week. Putting Up A Good Front Lance bad .s.iggested, and it had been decided?—with some mis- givings on Janet's part—to ex- plain to those intimate friends who were entitled to some explan- ation that because of the uncer- tainty of business conditions, it seemed better to wait until the house was nearer completion . "Because of course we can't go on living in a hotel forever, you know, Leslie." Janet finished. Leslie wasn't exactly an inti- mate friend; but she had gone to the trouble of planning the dinner. "Weil, I'm glad it isn't because the fair-haired boy was stuck in the stock market," Leslie said with her usual blunt impertinence. "There seems to be an unpleasant epidemic of that sort of thing. But anyhow, why give up the dinner? By the time your house is finish- ed I may be in the poorhouse, myself; end I hear they don't throw very lively parties there. I'll tell you—we'll call it a post- ponement party. 1'11 bet it won't be the last one." "I don't know what to say," Janet hesitated. "Perhaps Lance—" "Anything is all right with Lance so long as it's a party," Leslie insisted. "And Cynthia will be back by that time. I had a card from her this morning. I'd meant to ,,have Barney for her, but I'll take him and cut out some . one else," While Janet was still hesitat- ing at the telephone, Lance drop- ped in on his way back to the of- fice from a business call uptown "Why not?" he asked with a shurg when Janet relayed Les - he's message. "The more we're seen out together right now the better. It's the best way to keep people from thinking we've ac- tually had a row." Lance Is Excited When Janet had finished her conversation and hung up, Lance went on, "If I can land the pros- pect I've just been talking to, it may not be so much of a post- ponement after all." "Who is it?" Janet asked. "An old codger named Justin, who lives in one of those huge Mid -Victorian horrors in the East End. He seemed to have retired from active life some time ago— been travelling abroad—but there isn't any question that he's fairly dripping money. He's talking about building a house as a sur- prise' for his wife." "I've no doubt it will surprise the poor woman," Aunt Mary said tartly. "If there is any inalien- able right, it's the right of a wo- man to choose the place she's going to have to keep house in." "Oh, but please don't tell him that!" Lance smiled his most en- gagingly deferential smile. Janet wished Lance could un- derstand that being deferential to Aunt Mary only infuriated her. `Anyhow," Lance went on, "she doesn't keep house. She's a con- o firmed invalid; and lie thinks that when she comes ' home from the hospital, she ought to have mere cheerful surroundings. What he needs is something with plenty of space and trees around it. " Goeh! I wish-" He broke off, frowned intently at the opposite wall, and changed the subject. 'By the way, Jan," he, said when he left, "I'M afraid I can't get out tonight. I have some changes to make in the plans drew for Mr. Justin. I'll call you before I go to bed, aria let yon know how things turn out: If' 1 can knoek the old boy's eyes out with my plan, it may mean some, thing pretty good for me." Every time the telephone rang that evening, Janet sat up expect- antly. But although site read in her room until long after mid- night, there was ro call from Lance. (To Be Cavft:nauen1) New Vogue In Costae Jewelry Paris . Emphasizes Necklaces With Victorian Thesis Bosom is a word back in the fashion writer's vocabulary. for much of the new costume jewelry Paris is making is designed to be posed on that portion of a lady's chest. There are wide flat neck- laces composed of gold and caboch- ons in Renaissance designs, such as one sees in portraits of Francois I or Henry VIII; there are many stranded necklaces of smaller beads; and especially are there bili and plastron effects which may hang from a narrow dog collar but which often depend from a band placed below the base of the throat, Necklaces of this sort are worn with off -shoulder decolletes for evening, and occasionally with. plain-bodiced afternoon dresses. Comment is that the plain barque bodices which may appear with bustled skirts need ornaments of the sort to soften their severity. Quaint Pieces Whether or not the bustle mode takes or the crinoline mode con- tinues, French costume jewelry is. often slightly quaint in character, reminiscent of those epochs when jet fringe dangled From stiff silks and gold lockets contained locks of hair. The delicate gold filigree work so much in fashion• in Victor- ia's time, has been revived in new looking designs, sometimes set with huge stones. Crystalstones backed to ,give changeable color-. ing are another revival recalling the same perigd, especially when such stones are faceted into dangl- ing pointed shapes. Chatelaines. with dangling charms in place of the keys once carried on them, have increased in number since last season. Woollens Are With Us Again New Draped Fashions Called For Finer Woollens It is about time to get down to the sober matter of woolens; the crepes and the failles have certain- ly had their fling this summer. The woolens — we are speaking spec- ifically of those adapted to early Fall dresses and jacket suits - do seem to be unusually soft and tractable. Many may wonder, at times, how it is that such close harmony exists between the manu- facturer of fabric and creator of design. How could the woolen con- verters foresee, when months ago they began to work on their Fall materials, that creators of dress style were going to resort to the draping, pleating and gathering which would require the utmost pliability of fabric? Elegant Textures and Colors As a matter of fact, there is uo mystery about it. Long years of close association, a continuous in- terchange of ideas and the evolu- tion of style had led designers of fabrics and dresses to work on parallel lines. So it happens that in this season of fine feminine de- tails in caress there are soft wool- ens to execute them in, Next in importance .is the fact that there are so many companion woolens — plain materials and the checks and plaids that are mated as to quality and colors. They are ideal fabrics for the fascinating mixed suits and ensembles, for which there is going to be a great vogue, A few stripes come into the picture, hut at the present writing it seems that the checks and plaids are going to be more popular. Loses Pound Per Day In Air If girls are worried about their weight, Florence Boswell, of Cleveland, has a sure-fire reducing method—she says. Mrs. Boswell, woman aviator, claims she can take oft` seven pounds a week by spinning her airplane. "It's the centrifugal force that does it," she says. "The extra pounds are just thrown away.' a'al ch Bea ty h A ' and cap Main Prefer Women With Av- sage Good Looks, Heailth and Good Nature tliiasual neauty In women .can be a liability rather than an asset, ac- cording to Miss Elizabeth MacDon- ald Osborne, of Boston University, The noted consultant on women's Problems said she had studied the great women in history and Found that almost everyone of them bad tine Or two imperfections In their facial features, Rut they developed their other good points, she add- ed. "Cleopatra son Mark Antony from his wife who was many times more beautiful than the Egyptian queen. saki Miss Osborne. "Cleo- patra is not even considered beau- tiful — but she did have a beauti- fully modulated Voice." Contending that sten dislike the women with extreme beauty, Mise Oeborne added:. "They prefer a women with av- erage good looks, health, mystery, • and a warm sympathetic nature. I have found that extremely good- looking co-eds in college need more philosophy than other girls. "The beautiful women rest on their laurels of pulchritude and when they reach the age of forty they find they no longer can at- tract persons because they have Lost their beauty." "In this country we are expected to be attractive, and it is more im- portant to look attractive than to be attractive," Reasons for Dullness Warning women not to copy the others, Miss Osborne said that the most people are dull and uninter- esting because they are pale copies of successful individuals. She list- ed five reasons why women fail to make good impressions, namely: 1, They develop unpleasant qual- ities. 2. They have lost self-esteem. 3. They are afraid of what the others will say and think. 4. They are lazy. 5. They have a negative and un - co -operative philosophy of life. Many Marriages Said Fraudulent Judge Says Every Marriage Is Based To A Certain Extent On Misrepresentation Cireuit Judge Prank C '!u'Malley of St. Louis, believes .every. mar- riage is based on frau-' — more or. less. In an annulment hearing a woman plaintiff testified that her husband had misrepresented his intentions before their marriage and that he married her for her money. Best Foot Forward In taking the case under advise- ment, ,judge O'Malley commented: "If I granted an annulment in every case in which there was mis- representation I.lefore marriage, l'd be doing nothing else. Every mar- riage is based more or less on a fraud. A person always puts his hest foot forward." Small Wheels Make Popular Chair Set By CAROL AIMES In every living ronin there are usually one or more comfortable easy chairs, and every fastidious hoiflemaker feels the need of chair sets to protect the upholstery. Crocheted of small wheels set to- gether, this ensemble is one of tli most popular in the group of crocheted chair sets. To order No. 244., send 1:5 cants ir. coin -or stare p, to Carol Alines. Room 421, 73 14✓cst C.del'rdde St.,. Toronto. Handy Hints When a house is being done up, paint is often spilled on the door- step, and is sometimes found very difficult to remove. In that case ]Hake a strong Solution of potash, and wash the step, leaving the 'solution to soak in. In a short time the paint will become soft and can be washed oft' with soap and water. Thou use eold water. Paint which has been left on for some time will yield to this treat-. ment. —o— One cup peanut butter, '/ cup mashed Immune, lemon juice. —e— Cauliflower is just as taste -sat - lying raw as it is cooked. Next time you plan to have cooked cauliflower as a vegetable, but one a little larger than you need, save some of the nice flowerets to store in your hydrator for use in a crisp salad next day. —e—. - Along about Wednesday, if the family is pretty small, the end of Sunday's roast looks monotonous indeed. Grind it up, combine with any leftover bits of vege- tables waiting to be used, some breadcrumbs, minced onion and green pepper, a little water to moisten, seasonings, and stuff large ripe tomatoes, from which the centres have been scraped, Top with grated cheese and bake, —o- A useful cabinet for the bath- room. It's made from an old wooden box covered with checked oilcloth, and will hold odds and ends like extra tablets of soap, talcum powder and so on. Cover the sides and top with one piece of oilcloth, fastening with, colored drawing -pins;. tack another piece across back, and put on two front pieces curtain -fashion an a length of tape. —o— It is a good plan to put in a piping -cord when hemming the sides of short curtains; this pre- vents that stretching and conse- quently having .the untidy, sag- ging appearance they usually have when washed: —e— When steam rises from your saucepans during cooking, cover the rack above the cooker with two linen tea towels. They will ab- sorb the . moisture and' prevent your kitchen walls and ceiling steaming. It is this steam- ing of walls that causes the dis- temper to flake off so quickly, and by remembering this hint you'will have yourself a bill for having the kitchen redistempered. A'`grodcl Tway tc u4"/TVP fume is to !put a few'drops in the water with:l which you damp ,your- clothes.- Th ourclothes.-T.he hot iron brings" out the scent. —e— You know those little two- pronged wooden forks that come in date and crystallized fruit box- es? Don't throw them away, in- stead, dry thein after a good scrub and keep them in the kitchen. They are fine for cleaning tea- pot spouts and grand for cleaning between the prongs for your sil- ver forks and for snaking patterns on the pastry of a pie and for all sorts of other things. You try them! —0— You know how annoying it is to wash your hair brushes and find that they are limp, if clean. Try shaking out the water and then dipping thein into a saucer of milk. When they dry, the bristles will be beautifully stiff. And remember, when you are washing a brush with a wooden back to smear oil over the wood before washing. Something New Under The Sun Apple Blossom Fragrance A now Cologne with a fragrance that symbolizes freshness and cool- ness and everything that's youth- ful and gay has made its appear- ance on the cosmetic market—it's fragrance that subtly matches the delicate, sweet, clear scent of apple blossoms in full bloom. Following its success, a whole new array of bath luxuries has been presented which incorporates this same delic- ious orchard scent, and wraps, you in an aura of springtime enchant- ment and coolness, It is rumored that Paris courtiers will show new clear reels with a slight yellow cast tor fall, and in anticipation of this forecast a new shade of lipstick called "Sporting Pink," inspired by the brilliant red of the Euglish hunting coats, which British tradition has called "pink" for centuries, has been introduced. Actually, it is a vivid red with a slight yellow undertone—as excit- ing as the flash of red that whips through the brush daring the course of the fax -hunt! Pears, more than any other fruit, are affected by temperature changes, temperature being held to be the most important single fac- tor relating to their handling, par- ticularly in rold storage. „, 7,, ,,,,, ,i, ______ ,, ,, THE WORLD'S id. K GEST SELLING TEAu• IS PACKED ., UNDER LABELS Lipton's LABEL NIUE LABEL Lipton's ipion's VEWLI LABEL 493c % A select blend oR sntafGloaf Ceylon and India Teas grown be the world's finest tea gardens and blended in Canada. This selected blend of small leaf Orange Pekoe Teas gives you all the richness and flavour foie which itis universal- ly famous. Lipton's Finest ... rightly named "the international blend" because its superior flavour, quality and] richness have made' it famous the world over. 3512 r "F9T FOR A KtlI4O" Ships Sailings Being Cancelled His Majesty's Government of Great Britain have requisitioned several of the Cunard White Star vessels, requiring the cancelling of a number of ships' sailings. The following ships will not sail; "Aur•- ania," westbound, Sept. 1. eant- bound, Sept, 15, from Montreal; "Ascania," 'westbound, Sept. S, eastbound from Montreal, Sept. 22; "Scythia," westbound, Sept. 1, eastbound from New York, Sept. 15; "Britannic," westbound, Sept. 1, eastbound from New , York, Sept. 16. Passengers booked for these departures inay be giv- en the opportunity of transferring to other sailings, if space is avail -- able. Says "Hello Girls" Make Good Wives A woman who leas been in the telephone business since 1916 be- lieves 'phone . girls make gen v.Fa.wh..,., ...-.'^ J.\ Imperial Airways switchboard root, London, England, has charge of 16 operators, 14 of them women and 12 of them mar- ried and two engaged to be mar- ried. Her girls, ,"Mrs. Mac" said, "must be girls with soft voices, pleasant manners and the pa- tience of the Archangel Gabriel„ They must have an ability to com- bine efficiency with speed and they must never reveal their true :feelings-" Outside Closets KEPT CLEk'�a this EASYway fl 'O banish offensive outhouse JL odors ... just sprinkle half a tin of Gillett's Pure Flake Lye over contents of the closet—once a week. No need to remove• the contents . . . Gillett's does it for you. Gillett's Lye will save your time.. , save your energy in heav1r cleaning. It scours dirty pots and pans ... clears clogged drains cuts through grease. Keep a till handy. FREE BOOKLET — The Gillett's Lye Booklet tells how this powerful cleanser clears clogged. drains . keeps out- houses clean and odorless by destroying the contents of the closet . . - how it performs dozens of tasks. Send for a free copy to Standard Brands Ltd., Fraser Ave. and Liberty. Street, Toronto, Ont. 'Never dissolve rye in trot water, '1'/ass action of the lye itself /Teats the water„ Issue No. 36 '39