ks . 22x i3a a i sa ak a +. gia amare en i EY ASHMAN sisiber It was & hot spring moraing. The alr that came in at tite open win. dow wap still fresh and sweet, but there Wis avery promise of a scorching day, Cassy was as rad. innt 8s the day itself when present. ly she came downstairs in her dark blue gown and hat, ready for ad- venture, st a ped her arm into his, stopped into the atrest, job ant home!" Bue them hi Not people have - nom a a yi Isn't it going to be un Well manage the wedding first, Miss Pringle," Dan, who was in h spirits sald "and after that, 3 orever you are will be home to me and something tolls me that you'll 'be my job!' "Oh, 1 Jove you to 'be happy, Dan!" she said He 'was indeed strangely happy, ner was'that all, Cassy told her. self more than ones, during the wonderful long day, that dearly as she had loved him yesterdey, she hed never known Dan until now. She t sending him shy little Ho that brimmed with utter Dea took entire charge of the procesdings at the City Hall and Cassy who had dreaded that, found it all rather diverting. Then he sald that he knew a pippin of an old minister who would marry them, and that pleased Cassy, too, Ta be wedded in a peaceful, charm. ing vectory parlor seemed the right way to start. Afterwards Dan sont a telegram to her father, and. immediately ane nounced that they must lunch, And thru it all Dan was so ab- bed, so capable, so like a busy small' boy, that Cassy loved him more and more every minute. He got two morning papers while they ohed, and they read columns of rtflements about tats and hon eeping rooms to rent, nto wild \sughter over nt aed aloud: iY, vooms--ununusl: ga d, "lant "that every fiat in 'the is unusually large, slegantly dec. orated and sunshiny?" 'And at a low rept! Don't for. net Ang "he said, ve twenty 'good ones, on s ata rt looking!" And she gave her customary jump of sheer excitement in the street, 'Cassy, control yourself. You're a married woman, you know!" "I know. Do you know, Dan, apart from everything else, it's the greatest 3 on to me not to 1y, 'This Is going to be ghastly," Dan pt they had seen four apartm L 1 Shoay stated 'firmly, | M aybe you are the sort 10 TAA everything fs thay HA I ak fifty o den?" ny observed, at tl vo Ib was five Re alonk when 'they pulled their aching feet up. the steps that 'mounted between w f§ Batustrad on to. the Cannon hou It stood on Shotwell Street, on a "raised, guahoy gquare of dirty and 'battered garden, It was a square dothe without wind and wide "thru halls that every variation a , slovenliness and ET sha tote breathed. ft Da il 8 #00 earried wht So th he Bras, "floor of this room, uare. unbound, way oh fled that Dan a a thin Shans - ASSION FLOWER By Kathleen Norris. "Oh, 1 lke this little kitehon, "Oh, cut it!" he said incredulons- ¥. "You could make a lovely little sults of it," observed Mrs, Harney, with weary enthusiasm, 'There'd never be a day you wouldn't have the sunshine floodin' the place, [| have a spread I could let you have {for that bed, and when your own things were 'round, you'd be fixed real well" "Lot's smerge quietly into God's great out-of-doors," Dan murmur- od in her ear, "Dan, this place really could be sin, u precedent observed by Cssey in pth apartments, ard 'they leaned ° together of "thelr wide, high window and 7 looked down "at the A ned to the sym~ LE in the old: Bouse iy it sebin much longer {ia (ha8 ast night that we lett home?" she asked presontly. They specu- lated About what the abandoned household way experiencing: wheth- or Casey's father would. give the news to the press anno strent, Phony: "1 don't want his moti ofiey."" Noithar do' 17 Dan"! sid modi. AN husband 'st about this time, YAhe had such «a Jittle-girl Jook on her, pespin' out from under his arm, nd» was so tickled with the snife. BAL. 1 was: just up on the landin', to wes was Daley's 00) better, and you'd know, to hi the way 'the two of them's| hy that 'they'd been married wo time, the putfit, and, she's the one that's in love, it you'd ask me," w 4. ATa.be. continued) (Gopyrignt, 1980, by Kathleen Nore ip) rom On thelr, wedding night Dan and Cassy dined in the Dairy Kitchen, fixed up!" "With two sticks of dynamite, and a coroner," Dan agreed. Her delicious, spurting laughter repaid him, "Ask the rent," sha whispered, It appeared that she could not Jet it go for less than fourteen. The last lady had paid twelve and a half, Mrs, Harney would tell them frankly, but she Had had to raise, all over the house. Cassy gave a violent shudder, when she heard the sum mention~ od. It was the shudder of a bare gain-hunter, agonised with fear lost ashe Joirer her find, "And I have to maks {tin ad- vance, and I'll tell you why, dear," explained. the landlady, nthe full tieod of it, Cassy ob- gorved that ashe must speak alone to Mr, Wallace, the kitchen, ! ey went into | Dag, T Hke dt "You're crazy!" Dan sald, stupe- "YT tell you, with all this suns shine--~think of the dens we've seen! And that nice woman, for sis 1s nics, and only fourteen dol- Danny, I'm for it." he said lars a month! "I think you're crasy," again. But in the end he gave way, and Cassy antered into immediate ne- sotiations with her firat landlady. "Well, how soon do you want to come in, dear? 'Oh, tonighty" . sll, I could fix you up for to- night Mrs, Harney said, bright. "| ening. "Now, you go back to the hotel, and got our bags," Cassy directed Dah when that wan all settled, and Harndy had returned to her own regions downstairs, "And I'll lle down. And then we'll go out and s ot pepper and salt and every n " ou ate, se. Sat ABD dod ver, e," he stated simply, "I'll ve su a nicer homy than whi!" feed huskily ut fen't this fun? she coaxed, on tant, The reluctant smile she loved twitched at his fine, wide mouth. 1, we may get away with ft, amky, weary as she' was, ito cook her first aihatn ane the and the demur n on v went RK "din® at the Dairy Kitchen, Af rd they raided the five-and- hat o ror ron ne sly Wiggly ine-ninetesn. simmer um aud "i hoppe." on Dan tterly to the charm of at WA pr u..conts, an i hom Well, me do it without : nt nh ter. 1 n water.' I've geen m mother. But that certainly Is A mused Lat fully, lingering be- the poacher atin Oh, well, ve jt th Ya Trp Caney i wh Juincaal. . Dan econ. t a6 they want thrilling atreet, , they gi at py their own rooms, they warm hallways; laxiy-nung d ious a vi you can de them | tated, and then asked, "How much have we?" "We have asleven dollars and twenty cents," he said, after in. vestigation, "Oh, that's oceans!" Cammy as- sured him. "You see, we've done two-thirds of what we had to do this morning,' she summarized the situation optimistically "We're married, we've found a house and moved in. We sald twenty-five dol. lars rent, and we've done much bet. ter than that, We have food for tomorrow, and our rent's paid, and we even have eleven dollars, Dan, I call that grand!" I oan't got over the convenience of electric light!" she sald, some- what later, and Dan, finding no oth- or response handy, merely tighten. od his arm about her shoulders "Mind you, I thought they might be bride and groom," Mrs, Harney, comfortably nursing the baby in a lair far downstairs, observed to ' \ a) | THE BRIGHT BEAUTY | OF FRESH NEW COLOR | "For All Washable | Fabrics = Instantly! * Congo curtaiste | covers--ailk == woolen d sports elothes-- and drapes , . , Mg won't hurt | as new by just adding tes to the rine. ing water, First, find the props pre fn 5 shows 27 smart shades) at Dealer's. Dt Yi pon 7 1h al of You won't be disappointed! TINIES GROUP, odor sue. Bo Homes mc re Fy dyes ol Rid Ras Auto Very Autograph collecting, a hobby which can be traced to remote days, is #8id to bo increasing on the American continent, where celebrities ranging from eminent baseball players to great states. men Are constantly importuned to affly their signatures to the pages. of albums or even on soraps of paper, The connoisseur expanding Ris search, now no! merely seeks a name but pays for also the contents of a letter from the great or near-great. As with other hobbies autograph collect. ing his its fads, and some names among the permanent favorites bring from twenty-five to Afty times as much us they did a cen- tury ago, Rudyard Kipling, from whom the writer tréhsures a short and witty reply to a lefter concerning a Canadian subject in which the great Englishman was personally interested, has long been. a vice tim of the autograph hunter. Re. cently Mr. Kipling complained to his bank that certain cheques he had issued to looal tradesmen for small amounts had not heen cash ed. They never will be, because the owners find the signatures upon them muéh more valuable than the small amount in pounds, shillings and pence, Sold Royal Granny's Letter Concerning-the famous Britain, it is related that's young member of the British royal family (it sounds like Prinse Arthur of Con. naught) once did a stroke of ousiness in autographs, Hard up, ike most school boys, he had written his august grandmother, Her Majesty, Que Victoria, hinting at His pecuniary needs. In due 'course came a letter from Windsor Castle written in the Queen's own hand and enclosing A small sum ScRGflo 7 pemiwy a small money order to be expend. od on buns and ginger beer, Ex- hibitng the epistles in triumph to another boy, the youthful royalty was offered then and ther a whole pound for the letter, which he nceepted on the spot, The other 1nd, a keen autograph collector, had given him for that note, signed, "Your Loving Grandmoth- or, Victoria, just double the amount of money it had enclosed, Harding's letter Hrought $1,000 @ Canadian signatures some prizes repora in the valuts of the city archives of Montreal, where Jonlously gua oe are original documents sign Salle, Frontenno and other arly French explorers and. governors, In like manner most documents and lets tars signed by the early British soldiers and statesmen in Canada such as Wolle, Murtaye Hald! mond and Simoos are dyed in museums and libraries, rivate collectors, however, have many papers bearing the signs manual of the Fathers of Confederation, among which that of Sir John A, Macdonald is most highly prized. Mort sought after among Am- erloan itograghs are those of the singers of t claration of Inde. pendence. Next in popularity come those of the patriots of Co» lonial days, With the exception of those of Washington and Line sel, the signatures of American pranidents, and within recent years that of Harding, are not excessively dedr.' The demand for an autograph Harding letter arises b 88 most of his com. Eunisationl, however brief, were typewritten, Hence a letter in ry on | recently fold. tor o's Not For Sale kespeare is the most bril llant star on the horizon of tha egraphs aluab le cqllector, Not more than eight or nine of Bi aifuaturss' ars x : ithe rest bein Aho's gol the brains of irre or $86,000 in London, kaown to exist, and those al tached to bare legal documents are enshrined at Somerset House, London, or in the official record office. Charles Dickens' slenature and his writing command high prices, Not long ago seven pages of Pick. wick manuscript brought $35,000, SHAE, MORE pa 0 ve bo the face of 100,000 docu- ments, the signature chenging J with the various stages of his me. teorc career, The, signature of ap vamtas is a rare prize. Only fan hand hes yesched America, focked up in the cases of the National Library at Madrid, Blgnature apd handwrit- § of Uohars, Byron, Keats and ore are col Isctors" games, and t Browning's love letters % re "Bigners" fell The . interest attach: oa. Able groups of signatires has eased 'the names of two com- » ratively obscure Americats to file. to otherwise unwarranted 'Cwinnett. and Thomas Lynch, '| signers of the Delearation of In. dependence. Of far less import. ance than the other subscribers to that famous document, they Iaft 8 dearth of signatures, both dying soon after their return from the Continental Congress. Gwinnett shot in a dus! and Lynch dying al sea. A folio document signed by Gwinnett, who was first Continental Governor of Georgia, sold in 1860 for $10, In 1022 a similar document of Gwinnett's was purchased by a. collector named James H, Manning for $4, 600, Manning's friends thought him mad, but ten years latey the identical document gold for $22. 000, The most highly prised (Gwnnett today is in the possession of Dr, A. 68. W, Roesenbach, New York expert and dealer, The document, dated in 1776, bears besides Gwinnett's signature the names of Robert Morris, John Hancock, George Read, Prancis one example of his flowing Castil-" They are those of Button the - Lewis and Arthur Middiotos, 44 was purchased for $61,000, 30 Hina for 8 Lynch signature s §90,0 year or two ago the manu~ Borlpt of "Alice ii Wonderland" given by the author, Lewis Carrol, to the original of Ales, was sold by the latter for $75,000 te El- rdge R, Johnson, an. American, Autograph high lights of the pres- ont day in clude George Bernard Shaw, John Galsworthy, and Eu- gene O'Neil, to way nothing of dis. tinguished men who figured in the Great War, A Playmate of the Barrymores Many years ago a timorous, quiet spoken little boy with a passion for ¢ theater lived with his aunt in an old-fashioned apartment house down on Twenty-ninth Street, be- tween Sixth a Seventh Avenies, That's rather a dingy looking block now, but in those far-off yesterdays it was really a glamorous section of the zity, There were only a few apartments or "flats" on the street, Mast of the folks lived in delight. ful old houses with beautiful door. ways and green shutters and win- dow boxes filled with scarlet ger- aniums, Many of the people who lived there were glamorous, too, There was a fine upstanding gentleman with broad shoulders and the man- ners of a Russian grand duke who lived in the apartment house next, to the little boy, With him lived * his wife--a beautiful, rgther buxom woman with large lustrous eyes, They were merry people-=these two ~and they antertained lavighly late at night, when the quieter folk of the neighborhood were safely tuck. ed away in their beds, They had three children--a rather lanky girl of ten, with her mother's eyes and a rich luscious voice; a tall boy of twelve, who was something of a boxer, and a prankish rather wild and merry youngster of eight, whe d something of the swagger of fithgr about him 'evel then, Hese were the particular plays mates of the little boy next door, They loved the theater ds much as he did, Somehow they couldn't help it. They were always going to plays and sometimes they gave seats to the little boy whose aunt wasn't able to afford to buy him places, When all four of them had hap, soa ed to ses the same play they' up on the roof of the larger house and play scenes from it on an im- provised stage, As the little boy remembers them now through the mists that have gathered about the years they weren't particularly good at mime icking the players they had seen, He used to take it upon himself to direct them sometimes and show them how to put fire and vigor into their acting, The girl, he remem- bers, was the best, She had a fine flashing intelligence snd a great sense of fun The little boy hated to see them move out of the neighborhdod the next year. He lost all track of them for many years, and then, slowly and surely, they began to drift into the public eye, and as the time went on they became famous They happened to be Ethel, Lionel and Jack, children of that gay bo- hemian, Maurice Barrymore, and his brilliant wife, Georgia Drew, sister of John Drew, The little boy had grown to be a man, He had always wanted to be an actor, but somehow he just couldn't find the opportunity, He had to go to work when he was thirteen and for years he had heen in all sorts of business~keeping stocks in this wholesale warehonse and acting as shipping clerk in that even managing .& small soap face tory, Finally, he wound up as a writer of advertising copy and made & real success at last; but it wasn't the sort of success he wanted He wanted to do something in the theater. He couldn't forget those play days with the Barry- mores up on the roof, He decided one night that he'd be a playwright and Ie chucked his advertising job the next day, He's been writhg plays ever since with more or fess success, One of his earliest ones served Frances Starr for a season, it was called "The Shell." Just now another has already achieved a wun of seventeen weeks on Broadway and is scheduled to go through the summer, It is "Apron Strings," the somewhat ruddy farce now eurrent atthe Fortyseighth Street Theater, "1 want a summer book" "Something light? pry "Ohy no... | have a young" here to carry It home." +» ANOTHERN JUNE Jovy The month of roses wanes The honeymoon's forsook; } The benedict knows ne regréte His bride has learned to cook. 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