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Culminatkm By FANNIE HURST (• by KeCIwir«c MMat *iptp*r (WNTJ Scrrica) Sjradlctt*.) ™r> \ V: \rr * r- 4 v lu'*k- 'Kif- *»?; ' , i .y*. «+**•'*?.(* 2, ^ ^ ^ \ ^*r n»* * via # * 1 -4 *•*-&• *.j4 "* ^" ^ 1 - V v ' A f ^ £ ", * » * - ? jn 1 ' ii iv Mr in i' ~ i 11 i' i m' i i i ' * t \ " ' ' L*t flrsd thfl t>9QM ahoold b« kepi op for htr. Bat tt *u decided almost without opposition, Indeed with the co-operation of Jade O'Hlgglns, that the thine for Wanda to do, now that her business Interests were sufficiently concentrated. was to practically transfer her residence to the metropolis. In a subtle way. In a fashion not to bring the rebnke of Medrose down upon her pretty head. Because, after all, it was in Medrose that the Whalens had accumo* lated their fortune. Medrose had been kind to her family. Deep In her. heart, however, much as the sleepy little town might have bored her, Wanda felt this and was grateful. So, on the bright spring morning that Wanda set oat from Medrose for New York, few except her intimates knew that there was anything unusual about this particular depart* ore. To all external intents and purpose*, Wanda was simply off on another of her frequent jaunts, here, there and everywhere. The society column reported It The society weekly commented upon it And tbere was an end of it But what the town at large did not know was that Wanda was practically, as she stood chic and gayly dressed at the station that day, shaking the dust of Medrose off her prfttty feet Edna Martin and Tyron and Larry and Ctfftborue were at the station to bid her adieu. There was a more solemn note than usual lying underneath It «1L Wanda was practically leaving for good. Tyron, in spite of the fact that Wanda was promising to take her abroad with her the next summer but one, shed frank tears as the train pulled out The boys doffed hats rather sadly. There was something a little too final about It all, not to be depressed by it For twenty-eight months Wanda did not set foot In Medrose, and, contrary to her expectations, neither did she go abroad, because of a course in interior decoration which had caught her attention in New Tork and to which she devoted the major part of her time. Tyron went to Paris on funds gaily supplied by Wanda, but, to the surprise of those who knew her, the young heiress went through with the work that was interesting her at home. At its conclusion, however, she did go abroad. On a twelve-months' tour of Italy and France, devoting her time to a study of the galleries and old interiors of the l&rger European cities^ They were pleasant months, filled with Interest in her work and an honest and sustained desire to get on in it Again her friends marvelled. Wanda was by nature as gay and as temperamentally many-colored as a humming bird. Wanda liked to flirt, Wanda liked to drive fast cars. Dance tbe shimmering, shimmying dances of the period. Ride gondolas to moonlight with a youth. proper to the occasion. Wanda was in search of romance. She admitted It to herself. It was part of the wanderlust Somewhere on the face of the globe that she was free to wander at will, there lurked what she soturht. It kept her feet wandering on. It beckoned her from city to city, from country ,to cotfntry, irom mood to mood. Somewhere lurked romance. She found it in an old corn«P jM a garden in Florence. ' Turning a shaded walk, suddenly, in the Boboli gardens, she came upon the left shoulder of young man dabbing paint upon a canvas that was propped upon a small easel. For ten minutes, standing there regarding that left shoulder, Wanda, the level-headed Wanda, knew, before he swung around to face her, that she was in love. • * Knew It with a . curious, and in this case a most sure-fire, instinct of hers that was never to fail her. 1 Of course the face, when It swung around, was to bowl her over; to paralyze her for the moment with surprise. With a flutter of heart beat. It was the face of Claiborne Clay. It was the face that was ultimately to lead her from the four corners of the earth, back to Medrose for the culmination of her romance. < '-4 i ^ 'ANDA WHALEN was what you might call a small town v«, w T with a big town spirit & Although she had been ifern in the pretty town of Medrose, » thriving enough little place situated on a river notable for the beauty <* its winding banks, Wanda had iractically never lived there. That Is, afttil she came home from an eastern "college and found herself, for the first lime in her eighteen years, confronted with the idea of spending a winat home. Up to that time there had been the tiro years that the Whalens had spent abroad, previous to the death of her father, Cyrus Whalen, president of Medrose City bank. * Then there had been Wanda's years ,• J(|t a young ladies' school In Boston and the subsequent four years at a -Iflrla' college in New Tork state. Somjneni had been spent either at the . Elaborate camps of elaborate friends, the Medrose estate in Canada or in Europe. " All in all, Medrose bad sees pracilly nothing of Wanda, since her Idling years. ieanwhlle, the town had grown. iQuite a residential district bad sprung "tip around the end of town that was •till dominated by the handsome old Whalen mansion. $ What with her parents' recent death |u>d the marriage of an only brother jplid his subsequent removal to Salt j*4Tke City, Wanda was virtually the plead of that mansion. When in Med- Jrose she shared it with a maternal Aunt named Rosa Lee Masters. A jffaded, rather lovely-looking edition of the more robustly charming woman yho had been Wandat mother. Rosa tfcee ran the house with effectiveness Mad skill. The brief periods that Wanda spent at home were entirely devoid of the responsibilities of her Elaborate household or of the many jduties that might naturally clamor >r the attention of a young heiress itly come into large holdings. Between Rosa Lee and an old dl»- stfcnt family relative and lawyer yarned Jade O'Higgins, Wanda's days •continued to be peculiarly care-free •tsund devoted almost entirely to the business of making t£em as enjoyable jas possible. To the girls of Medrose, . i-who sometimes did Wanda injustice rto regard her frequent comings and igolngs a snobbery, she was, nonetheless, an object of perpetual fasdnaifion and mystery. There was something exotic about Wanda. She belonged to a great outside world of <4oings that made her a person apart 'from the usual run. Even the Medrose girls who were In a position to stt*vel about a bit themselves, and rwho had enjoyed the advantages of --finishing school, were nonetheless a little under the spell of Wanda. She rode horseback like a daredevil. The streets of Medrose gaped » see her striding through them in .natty knickers on a cross-country • Jaunt. She had a swimming pool built - the extensive grounds of the Whalen' mansion and there were ru: mors of midnight swims when eastern -friends came out for house parties. 'Once a motion picture star of International reputation, a Polish pianist and a senator from New Tork state Itad made up the personnel of one of these visiting groups. - -- -Wanda's name and photograph were ;:;ikrever in the Medrose paper, to say aothing of the eastern society and sheets. The town agreed, a little reluctantly, that Medrose was no place for her. There was really nothing there . to keep entertained and occupied a jjtrl-of-the-world like Wanda. Wanda, although she felt an affection for her little home city, came to about the same decision that first winter she spent there. There were one -or twp girls who were agreeable to tier. Edna Martin, who rode horseback with her. And the young daughter of the mayor of the town. A pretty girl named Tyron. There were «ren one or two of the local boys ^ •congenial to her. Larry Piexotto, who was a lawyer's apprentice and who «difove his father's car like a whizz. And a rather reserved young fellow, Claiborne Clay, whose father had once been one of the influential men of the state, but whose family had gradually fallen into arrears until Claiborne and his mother, last survivors, occupied a little gray frame bouse on the edge of the town. Claibrone was good fun because he was of a quieter and more thoughtful nature than any of the boys who frequented Whalen's. He was an architect by preparation and was already eagerly working toward the day when he would have earned sufficient for his first trip abroad. But outside of this small group of picked friends, Wanda s Interests lay in the world beyond. New Tork with Its theaters, its concerts, its pastimes lured her. There were old ties to be renewed with* friends she had met during the years abroad. Wanda yearned for a year in Paris. Another la Rome. Budapest! Vienna I Htr first quick judgment in these - years after the death of her parents wa. to sell the Whalen house and take up permanent abode In New York. Sentiment forbade that Beside it was fitting that while Rosa • •> - ---------4 Slot Machine Principle Familiar to Egyptians It Is an interesting fact that a slot machine that was patented in--the United States late in the Nineteenth century was of practically the same construction as one used about 200 B. C. in an Egyptian temple The credit for Inventing tjjls Ingenious machine probably belongs to Ctesibius, who was also the inventor of the siphon. The Egyptian slot machine was used to dispense purtfylng water to the worshipers In the temple. A eleven arrangement of lever and valve inside a vaselike container allowed a small portion of the holy water to escape when the sum of five drachmae was dropped through% slot In the lid. The weight of the correct number of coins caused the lever to open the valve in the bottom of the vase, and when the lever tilted, the coins slid off into the accumulation below, and. the flow of water was stopped. Australian platypus # a farred mammal with a beak like a duck, oviparus, laying two eggs at a time, but otherwise acting as any other animal, sucking Its young. In short a survival, which Australia Is trying hard to preserve. <g LOST ESTATE BAIT STILL LURES YANKS • - > Mythical Fortunes In England Tempi Suckers. f ---- London.--The biggest piece of international bait ever dangled before suckers at home or abroad still finds potor fish who swallow the hook, the line, and the sinker. It's that old morsel-- the ancestral estate In England. Wails go up periodically as demands, apjpeals, threats, and claims come by letter from the United States to officials in London, putting forward arguments based on the front page of the family Bible and the wheedlings of slick confidence men. Thousands of Jennlngses, Blakes, Hydes, and Drakes, not only in the United States but in Canada, Australia, South Africa, and points both east and west believe they have a right to a' castle, horses, dogs, vast acres, and piles of money in the bank, but the clever "estate lawyers" who dup« the ignorant Into buying shares in such ventures have found n»0st of their victims lit America. Another Warning Issued. ' Another wanting has just been Issued by the American consulate gen eral here. It is a typed, single Spaped document seven pages lofig explaining why attempts to recover such estates are mistakes. "Large unclaimed estates believed by many to exist in England are in practically every instance entirely mythical," says the consul general's memorandum, which is headed "A Warning," ^and reports of vast sums 'awaiting claimants in the bank of England' or dormant in the courts of chancer? are altogether without foundation. "The collection of money which, it is claimed, is for the purpose of taking legal proceedings to secure for heirs alleged estates of fa' ulous value in Great ilrltaln has become almost as established a business as that of selling spurious securities to the uninformed. The consulate general in London receives a number of letters each week, sometimes Ave or six in one day, with regard to nonexistent estates or estates that have been settled for so many years that no British court .will reconsider decisions made, in some cases, more than a century ago." , ^ 8ome Cases In Court. The statement points out that promoters of these fake schemes for reclaiming supposed estates have sold lqany "units" for $100 each, and where prospective victims were unable to find that much cash, fractions of units. "Occasionally," it says, "a case Is brought before the courts, but the costs are comparatively small and entirely out of proportion to the sums collected as advance fees." A list enumerating "a few" of the alleged estates about which the con sulate is frequently consulted and which actually do not exist was em bodied In the statement. They are those of Sir Francis Drake, Hyde, Jennings (Jannlgs or Jennens), Pat rick Rucker, Hedges, Mosher, "VVeber (Webber), Dufee of Argyle, James Dixon, Helen Sheridan Blake, Law rence-Townley (Lawrence Townsen), Walmsley, Jaques, Gen. Richard Winn, Bonnet (Bonet), and Page and Green or Greene. The Jennings and the Blake estates are the favorites, and a week seldom passes without receipt of several letters from claim ants to these "estates.** "It is a popular error that funds of unclaimed estates are left on de posit in the Bank of England," the memorandum observes. "This institution keeps a record <of unclaimed government securities and dividends, and no other kind of unclaimed prop erty." In general, the consulate general statement advises all persons contemplating such action to consult expert legal opinion first. And It warns that even If unimpeachable evidence of genealogical claims is furnished, the probability is that the estate will prove too small to pay for the suit, , even in the event of success. InTentor 'Cracks Up* . ~~ Plane in Spite of Copt Cannes.--French police for months have been trying to keep Albert Sauvent from cracking up his airplane-- but he foxed them and succeeded. Sauvent, an Inventor, had been prevented from testing his own ""crashproof" airplane. Police watched hipi closely. But he escaped their vigilance long ^nough to stage an intentional crack-up. Sauvent, who emerged unhurt from the wreck; pronounced the crack-up "perfect.** v ; Paris Grooves Street* to Halt Auto Skidding Paris.--When Paris Is fully equipped with its new concrete streets and roadways, covered with odd little grooves and artistic patterns, there will.be no skidding. The new preparation will not require any digging up of old roadways, but simply a recoating of them with nonskid surfacing. In some cases the top asphalt will be removed and concretc substituted, specially grooved and prepared to retard the irapa rf vehicles in rainy weather. JeOTHt*! Crest Diicuiwy Rev. Father Hennepin, a Jesuit mlstftoDary from France, writes of the dls- COvery of traces of bituminous coal os the Illinois river, above Fort Crecolier la 1679. The MMntaia la Coab| A California mountain Is moving tt the rate of more than 25 yards a year. If Mahomet exercises patience, no other exertion on his put rtiasM required.--Detroit New*. Texas Salpkar Skate § The world's greatest supply of sulphur, at least of that so far discovered, IS located In southern Texas. The deposits of this substance In three counties are said to furnish more than 90 pac cent of the world's prodi CrmwMr School for Girls; The opening of a grammar school for girts in Boston in the year 1826 was a most unusual and amy.lng thing to the Boston of those days, Queen Sell* Pftintiags Amsterdam.--Exhibition of paintings by Queen Wilhelmina of Holland realizetk-10,500 florins (about $4,200> which the queen donated for relief of £oor families. . .*By AH Accouats "What is single entry?" asks a correspondent. All that appears in most AjgroeaMy Modified "When asked to express their candid opinion, tactful people generally candy it first--Boston Transcript $ W a > i IIMta ~ •••. • • , , Lo|i« Tt &fwky» pays to be always good to be paid. Miss Helen Althoff and Miss Mary Jane Karney of Kenosha, Wis., and Miss Barbara Althoff visited at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Lo*:s Althoff Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. Bob Welke of Chicago visited with Mr. and Mrs. Peter F, Pr»ui«i and family over the weekend- Mr. and Mrs. Peter Smith and Eugene King motored to Chicago and visited with Mr. and Mrs. Alex Freund onb day this week. Mr. and Mrs. John E. Freund of McHenry visited with Mr. and Mrs- Castor M. Adams Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Ray Horick of Woodstock wen Sunday callers at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Stephen H. Smith- Mrs. William Smith and family and Miss Amelia Weber of McHenry visited with Mr. and Mrs, Joe Michels Saturday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Albert Huffr daughter, Shirley, were Mdlsnry callers Tuesday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Miller and family ©f Spring Grove were visitor* here Sunday. Mr. and Mx& William JT. Meyers and family were Crystal Lake callers Sunday evening. Mr. and Mrs, Math Lay and Mraad Mrs. John Lay of Spring Grove visited with Mrs. Stephen Schmitt Tuesday evening. Miss Laura Meyers of Chicago spent the week-end with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. William J. Meyers. Mrs. Joe Freund of Richmond was a visitor at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs« Jacob Miller one day this week. Jacob Steflfes of McHenry was a visitor here Tuesday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Michels visited with Mr. and Mrs. Peter Miller at Lily Lake Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Loaia , Althoff and family of McHenry were callers in the home of Mr. and Mrs. William Althoff Sunday evening. Miss Alma Justen and Miss Alvera Blake of McHenry were callers here Tuesday evening. Joe King, Fred Smith, Peter F. freund, Leo Smith and Joe Thelen motored to Chicago to attend a ball game Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. John Piteund and family from McHenry rpent Tuesday evening with Mr. and Mrs. Peter Freund. Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Bickler, son, Billie and dauprhter. Dudy, of McHenry were callers here Tuesday. Miss Evelyn Meyers, sister, Annabell, and brother, Leroy, and Miss Eleanor King were McHenry visitors Thursday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. George Obenauf and family of Grayslake were guests in the home of John Pitien Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. Alex Freund motored out from Chicago to spend Saturday and Sunday with Mr. and Mrs .Stephen H. Smith. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Buss and family of McHenry wer^callers here Thursday evening. Miss Martha May of Spring Grove was a caller here Friday evening. Clements Wirfs of McHenry was a caller at; the home of <W^iam J. Meyers Monday evening. MSds Evelyn Meyers motored to Crystal Lake Saturday evening. Mrs .Ray Horick of Woodstock spent Tuesday afternoon with Mrs Steve King. Bernard Althoff of Wheatland, Wis., spent Sunday with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Althoff- Mr. and Mrs. William Althoff and son, Bernard, motored to Crystal Lake Sunday morning. Miss Helen Michels, Mr. and Mrs. Peter Kelley and family motored to Antioch Monday. Harold Patzke and Kenneth Boley of McHenry wer© callers her« Monday. Miss Katharine Althoff of Elgin spent Sunday with Mr. and . Mrs. William Althoff. Mr. and Mrs. Delbert Snwith of McHenry visited with Mr. and Mrs. Ben Schaefer Monday evening. Mr. and Mrs. John Rauen of Spring Grove were guests in the home of John H- Freund Sunday afternoon. George Bohr of McHenry was a visitor here Monday. Eddie Kattner of Spring Grove was a caller here Monday evening. Mr. and Mrs. George Wirfs of Mc- Henry were visitors here Sunday afternoon. Herman Schaefer of McHenry was caller here Monday evening. Miss Emma Freund of McHenry was a caller at the home of her father, John H. Freund, Sunday. Jacob Schaefer of McHenry was a caller here Sunday. Mr- and Mrs. Mike Gorski of Woodstock visited with Mr. and Mrs. Joe P. Miller and family Sunday. Misses Mabel King and Veronica Britz of McHenry visited with Mr. and Mrs. Joe King Thursday evening. Miss Helen Althoff an<J Miss Mary Jane Karney of Kenosha, Wis., spent few days with relatives here. Mr- and Mrs. Ben Kerhmann of Kenosha, Mr. and Mrs. Lenard Kerhmann of New Munster and Dorothy Mae Voss were Sunday guests at the home of William Altlioff. Charles Michels and son, Harold, of McHenry were callers her© Monday evening. iss Agnes Schmitt and her motherj Mrs/Stephen Schmitt, were Spring v^^Jyisitors Saturday evening, tt/and Mrs. Arnold Rauen of Spring Grove were callers here Thursday evening. *• Mr. and Mrs. Ben H. Meyers of Racine, Wis., spent Sunday in the home of Mr. and Mrs. William J. Meyers. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Thelen vr^re McHenry visitors Saturday. Mr. and Mrs- Frank Michels visited with her sIstfeJT^at Crystal Lake Sunday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Stoffel and daughter of Volo visited with John Pitzen Wednesday. ' Mr, and Mrs, Ray Horick of Woodstock were visitors here Wednesday evening. , Mr. and ICrs. John Bowman of Wilmette, Mrs. Jacob Steffes and Mrs. John King of McHeitry mn caHers at the homo ai William J. Mayers Monday. The Ladiea' Community dab ait at the home of Mrs. Leo Fmtad Kooday evening. Prises were awarded to Mrs. Peter Smith, first; Mrs. William J- Meyers, second, and Mrs. Fred Smith, consolation. Lunch was served. Mrs. Albert Justen of McHenry visited with Mr. and Mrrf. Jacob Miller Tuesday. John H. Freund was a McHenry caller Saturday afternoon. Mi. and Mrs- Math Lay and Mr. and Mrs. John Lay of Spring Grove were visitors in the home of Mfs. Stephen Schmitt Sunday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Schmitt of McHenry were callers Here Sunday. Miss Oliva Hettermann of Crystal Lake spent Monday with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Hettermann. Mrs. Joe King, son, Leo, daughter, Mabel, Mrs. Fred Smith, son, Het> bert, and Mrs. Steve May motored to Chicago Wednesday to attend a baseball game, Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Miller ware callers at McHenry Wednesday. The Lady Foresters held a meeting; Tuesday evening. There were forty sisters present. Pries were fcwardsd to Mrs. John Schmitt, Mrs. Emma Kattner, Mrs. Leo Freund and Mfs. Anna Bugner, Ice cream and caks was served. Stephen H. Smith waa a Chicago visitor Monday. Eugene King is spending his vacation at Chicago with Mr. and Mrs. Alex Freund for a week. Joe Schmitt of Beloit was a callar here Wednesday. _ Woadorfal Htufaf. A dog can hear tones of a much higher pitch than the human ear caa detect. Russian scientists have asserted that some dogs tested for this quality were found to hear sounds vibrating oyer 100,000 times a second, while the human ear ceases to hear when sounds reach 20,000 vibrations a second. FrskrU CMA«a. WipoJ Oat Prairie chlckeni are now entirely sa> tinct In the West, and at present are found In considerable numbers only oa the Island of Martha's Vineyard, off the coast of Massachusetts. They wore mercilessly persecuted boih for sport and for food and win probably never again be found In large n ambers anywhere outside of game preserves. ••Coal Oil- When petroleum was first extract- "S3 tn this country It occurred In close association with coal mining areas and the common name "coal oil" waa given to all petroleum. Later, when petroleum was refined, the principally valuable refined product in the early days was kerosene, used for lamps. The name "coal oil" was then commonly applied to kerosene of tha grade used for Illumination. __. Divided Honors The rising of the Americi^mColonlsts against the British enemy occurred on land and at sea more or less coincldentally over a long period, and It 1s Impossible to assign any date which would show which arm of the service was first In this regard. Week-End Specials C;pU)REirS DRESSES---sises 6 to 12, in prints , and linene, each ' 39# LADIES' PRINTED VOILE DRESSES, each. 98^ ALL WOOL BATHING SUITS at rediculonsly low price JSI.E0TRI0 FANS--S in. blades, silent running $1.59 100% HOP FLAVORED MALT-- 3 cans for $1.00 BLXJE RIBBON MALT--hop flavored, large can 50£ > FDL CATSUP--large bottle, each 15<* SELOX SPEED SOAP--large packages 2 for 25^ I VARY SOAP-- 6 medium bars 29<^ 1 Percolator Brush, 1 Dish Mop, 1 Vegetable Brush and 1 Sink Brush and Scraper and 1 Green Painted Rack-- ALL FOR 25^ SATURDAY ONLY--10-qt Galvanised WaWr Pails 9^ Only one to a customer Main St. Ptione 154 McHenry •' y.; v V'i vv-V'&f T .. " -1 • • - --v.--".:- . -*•. V PICNIC Church Grounds, Johnsburg, Illinois m": iM 23*24 Chicken Dinner, Sunday, July 24 11 a. m. to 3 p. m. if^:„ :,y The Chicago Casino, * male choir of 40 voices, will provide music on Sunday morning, and the Waukegan Brass Band wiff^Iay Sunday evening r Death Defying Jump from Airplane Sunday afternoon at 4, by Roy Matthews • i., , • • •• - r< / ~ t , Attractions of all Kinds and Refreshments Come One Come All - , ^