REY a. oy." Vn pT PAGE TEN b Sr mi m-- Te THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, MONDAY, JULY 7, 1919. a oe nn fenton -- ) - In the Realm of Women --: Some Interesting Features The Luck of Geraldine Laird To = BY KATHLEEN NORRIS Author 6f "The Story of Julla Page, 'Heart of Rachel," *Josselyn's Wite," "Sisters ete. - "And you just want to dress to ylease your husband---ain't that grand?" sald the dressmaker admir- ingly, archly, "Oh, my dear, he's the one that cares--not Jl" Gefaldine answered, laughing. You know 1 always say that the reason Mr. Laird fell in love with me was because he saw me first in that High School Kermess we gave for a whole week, and I wore my hair ti~htly braided, and the preity Dutch costume with the wooden shoes! And then when poor father died, I wore the plainest kind of plain mourning, and the mischief was done! Clothes count with Mr, Laird." ] "I won't ever forget you taking oft that Duteh girl," Mrs. Potts said with a reminiscent chuckle, "It gny one wouldn't have sworn you was born and raised in Holland! And the time you done the Irish ser- vant--" . "Oh, but that was later--after I was married!" Geraldine smiled. ADD A DELICIOUS FLAVOR to left-overs: Makes second cuts equal to first: Makes the month- ly allowance go further. LEA:PERRINS SAUCE THE ORIBINAL WORCESTERSHIRE Get that tang and flavor Order a supply to-day. Sold by the best deal ers everywhere, SYNOPSIS. way---Tuesday?" she ready to go. man assured her, gratefully. said. "Girls well?" Geraldine paused, and rapture. "They are simply so sweet dear of content and well-being at heart. : roned maid. employed by various oclubs hallway, yond. were grouped about the of the wide divan. to the tall, ruddy-faced man came forward to greet her. didn't you tell me? was just the usual thing." "Go 'put your wraps in mother' room," Louis Redding said, You thought all I meant it'to be, my dear. Bu you'll agree with me!" brought a charming and" studio suppers and Sunda; walks that appealed tot true Bohemia. ; "Where's Dean?" Lous asked. . q Send ug three of these ads--all différent--for a FREE trial size cake of INFANTS-DELIGHT. | JOHN TAYLOR & CO. Limited, : Yept- 14. . 3 **Well, then, suppose we leave it that concluded, 'And you're a real good girl to be 80 obliging about it!" the older wod "Re- member me to Mrs. Fitzpatrick," she and into her | bright face came a look of softness dear. and and delicious," 'she answered, "that'I declare I don't know why the Lord éver gave them to me!" and with a cordial good-by she went out into the bright streef, with a sense her At four o'clock she was leaning forward to ring the bell of Louis Reding's studio, when, to her sur prise the door was noiselessly ©pen- ed from within by a capped and ap- 'Heavens, Louis, I had no idea it wih going to be such a grand party!" Geraldine said, with a rueful laugh, with the host's quick, nervous laugh, "You 4 thought--what? was going to be--yes, well, that was "She must be!" Geralliine agreed. 1 They had been good:friends since the days, seven or eight years ago now, on his first arrival in Stockham. Neither Geraldine nor Dean honestly admired Louis's rather' odd 'pait<|her down to the divan, and said lov- ings, but they loved thé warm-heari- ed, genrous, simple fellow! who had ome, element into the prosaic town. There was a simplicity about him, about his and that they felt had the flavor of fvhen 1 ad wa | Maggie "Coniing---he had to go to Albany, And I- didn't get the gown 1 wanted, and 1 feel so Shabby!" she explain But he, xa ly listening in his anxiety to see how the conversation about the -fire~was moving, and who the ne™y:omers were. at the door. "You're : always charming, my 'Nobody eaves what you wear!" he assured her so seriously that. deraldine, quite comforted, went back to the bedroom, where wo men's hats and coats were already beginning to accumulate on the bed. "But I'd no idea it was such an af- fair!" she mused again, straighten- ing her frills and her hair. 'Well, I'l 1go right to the tea-table and pour, and then nobody'll notice me, anyway!" ' ? And with a final dab of powder for her nose, and a final half-satisfied glance at herself in the mirror, over her shoulder, she went out to the Geraldine knew the maid, who was studio, and householders in the town for unusual social occasions, and gave her, with her greeting smile, a rather concern- ed look, which embraced the square with its extravagant bowl of fruit-blossoms, and the studio be- A fire flashed in the immense fireplace, and a few men and women painter' tiny, white-haired mother, who oe- cupied a sort of throne in the centre Almost all the men and women gathered there were old friends, who had known her as little Jerry Fitz- patrick not many years ago, and as ghe 'joined them she realized that Louis was telling them with much relish a story of her mischievous and daring girlhood. Walking home from high school, years before, as s|usual linked with two intimate friends, and as usual giggling and bubbliig with inexhaustible spirits, the younger Geraldine had chanced to pass an unknown House, where a funeral was tn progress, and, spur- red by a spirit of idle mischief, had who! been inspired gravely to enter the "Why I thought it house, gravely to condole with the family, and gravely to inspect the countenance of the aged and depart- ged grandfather. ~ "This shameless exploit' had been getually kept secret for a long time it|by the half-frightened girls, but it had leaked out, and was a favorite t | with her friends now, and a source you see evrybody wanted to meet my Of mingled regret and amusement to little girl--eluver girl, Jerry, I know herself. The painter's little mother ,a frail old lady within thin white hair streaked wiht yellow and strained away from a pink parting, a rustling #ilk dress, and shell-like hands em- erging from frills of fine lace, drew ingly: "Well, how's Maggie?" * Geraldine laughed suddenly and merrily, and her hostess, still detain- ing her hands, added for the enlight- enment of the group, 'You all know aE what this had girl aid last year, for a maid? ' She old clothes, and She said she was Something-ov-Other, and wanted to see about the jobs ~The studio was dark, of course, and I talked to her for fifteen minutes be- fore she burst out laughing in my face. I looked at the girl--" said old Mrs. Reding, imitating that look of surprise and censure, with great enjoyment, "and I jooked at her!" Another laugh, in which Geraldine joined, interrupted her, Every one ew the story, but every one enjoy- i t. + "Bug tell me, where is Louis's guest of honor?' 'Geraldine asked, when shé had settled herself at the Jold lady's side, for a chat, (To be continued.) vertised dressed herself in came down here. Promoter's we Wife .... By Jane Phelps To Do Right Brings Peace and Hip- a CHAPTER CXXVI : The summer came and went. Our garden was a constant source of plea- sure as well as profit, Robert helped me before and after school and thru the vacation with my flowers so they also were cared for: @s' they should be. Neil rose early and worked an hour in the garden before he went into town. He was happier, health- fer than he had been since the first years of our marriage and did not hesitate to say so. We had bought a lot, and 'Were paying for it as fast as possible. 'We had decided upon a plan for one house, and were so hap- py over it that we often laughed at ourselves for being so foolish, "Just like a couple of kids," Neil declared, Ned Rayburn had bought the lot next us, And they would also build a house which would look well next to us. I bad cautioned them about huilding too elaborately or we would be dwarfed, Many evenings that win- ter we gave to talking of our new home, of our plans for Robert and his little sister who had arrived in the late autumn, and whom Robert adored. Neil was making good in adjust- ing the affairs of the business, "get- ting it on its feet again," he said.' Mr. 'Frederick had not come east for months. He laft everything to Neil. This entire cohfidence he displayed did more to give Neil back his self respect than any other thing could have done. He was growing bright- er, more like his wld self. Some of the boyishness was noticeable at times, and I fairly gloated over it. it was the old Neil I had married coming back to me, the best part of him. By spring we had paid for the lot, Land startéd building. ~~ What a con- stant source of pleasure it was to watch that litle home grow. Every night when dinher was over Neil and I walked over to see what had been accomplished "@uring the day. It made no difference that I had taken Elsie in her gocart over in the morn- ing. {was just 8s interested in go- ing again, It seemed to me that nes ver was a home do longingly looked for, so eagerly awaited as was that six room housé on Long Island. We were to pay a iittle down, then some bas rent, the rast op a mortgage which 'Ned t id taken mt § per ent: T lo it easy for us, and allowed us to "Buy what was necess- ary to furnish it. We moved in for Christie. And never were two peaplle more thankful than were Neil and IL "It's quite different from the New York home, Bab," he said on Christ. mas morning, It was our present to each other, "But I shall love it far more, Neil. We are foing to be so happy here. 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