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THE BOSTON 'GLOBE MONDAY DECEMBER 21, 1923 17 ousehold ca -O THE PRODIGAL FATHER By ARTHUR APLIN Robert Elder Admits He Is Married and Reggie Threatens Begin the Globes New Serial Today rffigh-Vi ons CorvfidentiaJ Chat With the Purchase of Each Grand My Neighbor Says: When black gloves become rusty at the finger ends they may be restored by adding a few drops of black ink to a teaspoonful of olive oil and applying it with a camels hair brush. The trouble with many of the women of today is that they dont take the trouble to prepare meals. Cooking is a delicate business, requiring much skill. If people knew how to cook they would use cheaper meat and make It taste better than the most expensive cuts. When boiling a pudding place a piece of grease-proof paper between the pudding and cloth.

This will prevent the goodness boiling out of the pudding and save labor when washing the cloth. About half a teaspoon of ordinary moist sugar rubbed into the hands with a soapy lather will clean them and leave them beautiful and smooth. When frjing ham or bacon always place It In the pan before putting the pan on the fire. It cooks and browns quicker and better than if put in a warm pan. Jt is a good plan to dip brooms in very hot soapsuds once a week.

This toughens their bristles, and the brooms not only last longer, but also sweep better than if they jrere kept perfectly dry. ben pealing a merry chime floated on the air. And' in the street below a band of youths was singing a Christmas hymn: Hark! the herald angels sing dory to the new born King, Peace on earth and mercy mild, God and sinner, reconciled. Reggie Elder heard, and walking to the window, flung It open. Well, my dear brother? he asked after a paUse.

"Im not your brother! There was a subtle change In Roberts voice, which Reggie was quick to notice. He spoke quietly, and without any attempt to bluff. Not my brother! Funny If there are two Robert Elders knocking about the world. Isnt It? Its too late to trj- that on with me. If you hadnt been my brother youd have denied it last week.

Besides, I I recognized you. "Im not j-our brother. I swear It. "Swearing's no good; you've got to prove It. Come up to Flndens and prove it.

As he spoke he gradually edged towards the door until he stood In front of It, barring the way. Now then, alt down at that table and write what I dictate. Automatically Robert obeyed; he took up a pen lying on the table and fingered It thoughtfully. His whole attitude was that of a man who finds himself cornered. Reggie stood behind his back.

If it was unpleasant to have found a brother who was a criminal. It was very pleasant to be able to extract from him. Twenty thousand pounds! He had only to demand the lot to obtain It. Before dictating the letter he poured himself out a generous dose of whisky. "VV'rlte I hereby acknowledge that I owe my brother, 'Reginald Elder, son of the late David Rlgnold Elder, of Court.

Essex, the sum of which sum I promise to pay him on or before the 1st of February. 1911. Now sign it Robert Rlgnold Elder! He was bending over his brother, his thm hands trembling to snatch the paper. (Copyright. 1913.

Associated Newspapers Ltd.) Continued Tomorrow Regale Is Startled. SYNOPSIS WEIltsn fltrth not barn the conrrn to 4ii b't that bo bad beo di-1 co doctor bad ordered Mary and UUio to I bo country. It a of life and death that tba cbiid a'UI C'-t aay from Ijonduo. Hir'O told Mary that he had aoenrod Ion bopd-for Uicp- to aaTary acd be fatted a coerk to le are fund needed to aend her to th country with little HiU. lltrti bad wr.tten an aural to tne father te bad nr Jamee Hirth of Chicago, tut re.ied do reply.

So Hill raid the Cdc aa.1. leaefnif borne, disappeared. la the meantime. Jamea Hirtfi. delighted to learn he had a son.

was hastening to the road bi car killed a man, bat he did not stop. Ut tie be realize teat t. eon was malkiug that road. jame H.rth went to hi son house when Mary was out. While be waited a tele-gm a rr announcing that a mn bllvl Hirth had beea killed by an site on tne IVr4cnotitb mad.

The elder li.rth Iden fted the man at bis eon. Itcr be toid Mary that ber husband bad kiiied. This morn be told ber and rmre. Mary fainted. Then there entered a ban who asid bis name was Robert continuing.

I wltneeed the accident laet olght." ITlrth told bim to call on at bta hotel that s.gnt. raise and demanded that Birth ahoold settle a year on bla aoni wife, an 1 taen ahonld take bla own life, leaving Elder bla fortnne. Such was the ptVe the man demanded for hie silence. Robert Elder attended the Hirth funeral. He went to a saloon nearby with a stranger fc- met at the cemetery.

This man, a earl which fell out of Elders pocket, and greeted him as his Ijng-pwt brrdher. He told Robert that their fuier hid left hia fortane to hitn, cutting fff Reggie. After time Robert challenged: "now 6 j-ci know that I im Robert Elder':" CHAPTER 10 (CONTINUED) 'HY. you acknowledged It last week. Besides I've got your card, the one you dropped out of the pocketbook- And you looked scared when I recognized mu." Righting his pipe he pulled his chair closer to his brother s.

"Look here. Korert. I aint a wrong un, not realiv. A wastrel, a fool, a bit of a blackguard on know. You've been a bi.t guard too: though I aint seen vou I've heard things.

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A shaggy-haired man opened the front door of a house and beckoned the minstrel. "Ole us a wee bit lilt Just oot here, he said In an accent, which told that he also was from the bind of the haggis. My fluid mlthers in a creettcal con-deetlon oopstalr. The doctor's wl her the nno, untl says the plpcb may save her life." I'n ard down In front of the house marched th braw Miolander, discoursing music that might well have been In-cider tal to a cat and pig fight. Presently the shaggy-haired man cam out again.

"Gie ua the Dead March noo," ha said. Is th pair auld lady gone? que. Joned the piper, "Na na. mon: ye've saved mlther. came the reply.

Tut youve killed tbs pulr doctor! Washington Post. ture, cover with buttered crumbs. Bake 20 minutes. Serve with gravy or tomato sauce. Household Lover.

Fondants To Blue Moon To make fondant, take 5 cups of sugar, 11 cups of hot water, teaspoon of cream of tartar; mix all together and boil without stirring until a soft ball can be formed when tried In cold water. During boiling the crystals that appear on sides of pan must be wiped oft with a damp cloth, from time to time, or the mixture will become granular. Do not stir or shake the pan in any way, and take it off the stove without shaking it. When done, pour out 6lowly over a cold platter. Let stand till cool, not cold; In fact, it should not be quite cool, almost so.

Then Ptir with a wooden spoon or spatula till white and creamy; then knead with the hands till smooth and velvety; It should look like lard when ready to put away. Let stand in a bow-1 a few hours, then pack in air-tight preserve jars, or put in a stone crock, cover with a damp cloth and crock cover. In this case, dampen the cloth occasionally. It will keep a long time. Make fondant on a clear day, always.

By using- different coloring and extracts, one may have many kinds of centers. Use pure extracts or oils, and use only a few drops of the latter. For variety, put chopped nuts or candied fruit or pieces of Jelly Into each center before coating. Always remember that high colors are not desirable In candy, the paler shades being much more attractive and artistic in appearance. Fudge cut in squares and coated is good.

Coffee Fondant Five cups sugar, VA cups cold water, cup ground coffee, 4 teaspoon cream of tartar. Put water and coffee in saucepan and bring to boiling point. Strain through double cheesecloth, then add sugar and cream of tartar and proceed as In fondant. This fondant Is delicious and requires no flavoring or coloring, and tastes as good as maple fondant. Centers may be coated in fondant or chocolate.

Melt fondant In double boiler and drop one ball into it at a time. To make the centers, take as much fondomt as you want to make into balls, and flavor It and color or use white. Knead the color in with the hands, and then form into balls; let stand a few hours, then coat with chocolate, which should be half sweet and half unsweetened, or, use unsweetened. If you make peppermints or wintergreens, or any other kind, if you like the bitter taste. Buy a chocolate that Is used for coating purposes only.

Melt a little in a double boiler slowly, for the less heat in melting, the better; the chocolate must not get hot, simply warm. When most of it is melted, take off the stove, and stir till all is melted. Beat until the chocolate feels cool, not warm, to the fingers. Then drop in a ball and use a fork, a two-tiro-d one is best, or a knife, and be sure the center Is all covered, then drop it onto a board covered with oilcloth. Y'ou can put a few pieces of chopped nuts on each piece, or nothing at all.

Be sure the chocolate is almost cold or they will be streaky when dry. In coating with fondant, the fondant must stay in the double boiler all through the coating, and the work must be don quickly. If these directions are followed closely you will have good chocolates. Dates are also good coated, with or without the fondant around them. Fondant with chopped nuts is very good, and especially used with coffee or maple fondants.

The chocolate for coating is only sold at confectioners and Is the only kind to use for coating chocolates. I hope this Information is what you want and that you will be successful. Common Sense. Needlework Queries Bedeque I am very anxious to try to make the babys crocheted afghan you eo kindly sent directions for, but will you please tell me what size balls to buy. The one ounce balls cost 30 cents and 1V6 ounce balls cost 4o cents.

Which do you use? Also, in working edge, am I correct in understanding that you work one row of pink and one row of white before you start to work the over each sc? Or, are the worked right Into the body of the afghan? I am not very expert, as you see, but am anxious to make this for a new-com. Weo Nineteen. Dear Reba Please send directions for second closet for apartment. I have a friend who would appreciate one for Christmas; also for door stops. I hope I am not asking too much.

Homemade gifts mean so much more to me than those we rush out and buy. Alfreda. Requests Dear Sisters Will some of you tell me how to black a stove with good results? Do you use liquid blacking or paste? Also do you use a. brush? also wish to know what I can. do to make gravy brown looking.

Seattle, 1832. MENU FOR TUESDAY, DEC 22 BREAKFAST Sliced Oranges and Banaaaa. liominr with Cremm. Creamed Beef with Eggs. Toast.

Marmalade. Coffee. luncheon Escalloped Oysters. Mashed Potatoes. Stewed Tomatoes.

Cinnamon Rolls. Tea. DINNER Tomato Bisque. Broiled Hamburg Steak. French Fried Potatoes.

Baked Squash. Heart of lettuce, French Dressing. Klee Pudding with Raisins. Coffee. 4 4 CREAMED BEEF WITH EGOS 4 Two ounces of dried beef.

1 cup of to- Tniatoe. cup of grated cheese, few drops' of onion Juice, few grains of cinnamon, few grains of cayenne. 2 tablespoons of butter. 8 eggs; pick over beef and chop finely, add tomatoes, cheese, onion Juice, cinnamon and cayenDe: melt butter, add mixtures, and. when heated, add eggs well, I beaten; cook until eggs are of creamy coo- Jeletency, stirring and scraping from bot-, Ttora of pan.

i SCALLOPED OYSTERS 4 Carefully remove all bits of shell from 1 quart of oysters, add 3 cape of rolled ore ev jvwm Millie 1 in I quart of oysters, add 3 cap of rol cracker crumbs, 2 cups of milk, cup butter melted, 2 teasjjoons of salt and teaspoon of pepper. Stir with a fork. Into a buttered pan, cover tho top with battered crumbs and bake about 1 hour. I RICE TEDDING WITH RAISINS 4 4 Pour cups of hot milk over 2 cups of 400M boiled rice and stir with a fork. Add 4 1 tablespoon of butter, cup of molasses, Vi cup of raisins.

Vs teaspoon of nutmeg and Vs teaspoon of salt. Pour into a buttered baking dish and bake 1 hour in a 7 slow oven. Stir three times during the first half-hour. 4 44 Read Carefully there is any Household Problem that you cannot solve, do not hesitate to write to the New England house-wivea who contribute to the Household Department. They are always willing to help you.

In writing to the Household Department use only one aide of each sheet of paper and sign a pen name. Remember, we also have a Household Department in the Sunday Globe which has 00 rival In the world. The rates for subscription by mail and hack numbers of the Morning, Evening and Sunday Globe will be found on the Editorial page every day. Special editions of the Dally Globe can be bought at the countingroom for 5 cents a copy. Pineapple Upside Down Cake For Aunt Peggy: Batter One-quarter cup butter, 1V4 cups flour, 2 cup sugar, 2 V4 teaspoons baking powder, 1 egg yolk, teaspoon vanilla, V-4 cup milk.

Filling Three tablespoons butter, cup brown sugar. 14 cups sliced pineapple cut into email pieces (I use a whole canl. Cream the butter, add the sugar gradually, add beaten egg yolk and the milk or pineapple Juice as preferred, alternately with the flour mixed with baking powder. Fold in the stiffly beaten egg white and add vanilla. Melt 3 tablespoons butter In a pan.

add the brown sugar, and when It is melted, spread on the pineapple, which has been put in the bottom of a deep baking pan. Pour the batter over this and bake In a moderate oven 20 to 30 minutes. Remove the cake from the pan onto a plate so that the fruit is on -top. Serve cold with whipped cream. I spread the pineapple, cut in pieces, flat and as close as I can get the pieces in the bottom of the pan, so that cake batter does not run through the pineapple.

It is delicious. If you try these and like them, Ix-e got more good ones. Did you pver make salmon souffle with Spanish sauce and Spanish potatoes? Mighty good. Ill sign my favorite color, Copenhagen Blue. Scalloped Tongue Dear Aunt Peggy Tour answer to toy letter pleased me very much.

Just to think of all the thousands of Globes printed and that reply was Just for me. I live 18 miles from Boston, and tongue here is quite a bit cheaper. Fresh tongue is 40c and corned 25c. I wonder if j-ou would send me a plum pudding recipe? Wont you tell me more about yourself? I know you must be quite busy, and yet you find time enough to send us all nice letters. Wont you try this if you have any tongue left after serving it hot with sauce? Scalloped Tongue Left-over tongue chopped fine, about 1 pint small onions, teaspoon chopped parsley.teaspoon salt.

1 teaspoon capers, 1 cup crumbs, V2 cup stock, 3 tablespoons butter. Butter dish and put layer of crumbs in. Mix meat with parsley and spices and make up the dish in layers with slices of onion cut thin and dots of butter between each layer. Add enough crumbs on top to brown. Bake about 20 minutes.

Paquita. Peanut Wafers For the Cookie Jar Three-quarters cup shortening, VA cups light brown qugar, 1 egg, teaspoon salt, teaspoon soda, 3 tablespoons milk, 2 cups shelled peanuts, 3 cups flour, cream shortening; add sugar gradually; add well beaten egg. Sift flour and measure; mix flour, salt and soda together; add to creamed mixture, alternating with liquids; add finely chopped peanuts. Roll out on floured board to Vs-inch thickness. Cut and place on greased baking sheet.

Bake minutes in very hot oven, 450 degrees Fahrenheit. Thris amount makes 60 wafers, 1x3 inches. Piper Tom. Liver and Bacon Drop calfs liver Into a dish of boiling water, cook till it looks white, strain. When dry sprinkle with salt and pepper, roll In flour.

Now fry bacon until crisp, drain oft fat into a dish as it accumulates (save the fat). When bacon is crisp, lay on brown paper. Now fry the liver in hot bacon fat till nicely browned, put liver on dish, serve with the crisp-fried bacon and parsley. I have the real Chinese recipe for chop suey if any sister would like it. Inky.

Rice Griddle Cakes Dear Household Ixiver My, what a thrill I reoelved Saturday when I read your note to me. Y'ou see It Is the only one that has been sent to me. Am sending you a recipe for your very own. Hope you will like it. Rice Griddle Cakes One cup cold cooked rice, A4 teaspoon salt, cup sugar, 1A cups skimmed milk.

2 tablespoons melted drippings, well beaten egg. 2A cups flour lrto which has been sifted 2 teaspoons baking powder. Beat well and bake on very hot griddle. Opal. Yellow and White Cake Dear Twilight Hour This Is a cake recipe of my own but is very good.

Yellow and white cake call It for want of a better name. Three egg whites, 1 cup sugar, 3 tablespoons shortening (I use lard), 3 cups of flour, 3 teaspoons baking powder. 1 cups milk, 1 teaspoon almond extract. Cream sugar and shortening, add flavoring, then add dry ingredients sifted twice and milk. Mix well bju.t do not beat.

Add stiffly beaten egg whites last. Bake In angel cake pan and frost with the following: Three egg yolks, frosting sugar to make of the right consistency, 1 teaspoon almond extract. Decorate with walnut meats. The cake Is white and the frosting yellow. This also makes one loaf and 12 cup-cakes.

If you do not care for the almond flavoring you can use any you desire. Won't you try this and let me know how you like It? March Wind. Crab Meat in Peppers Six sweet green peppers, 1 small can crab meat, 1-cup stale bread crumbs, 1 cup tomato pulp, 1 teaspoon ealt, Vi teaspoon pepper. 1 teaspoon onion juice. Mix crab meat bread crumbs, tomato pulp.

Cut slice of top of pepper, remove seeds, parboil 3 minutes. Cool, place In xnuffla fin with crab meat mb I I A Why Not Choose an American? Dear Unpleasantly Situated I do not know Just how much, you care for this young foreigner, but I do know that you will be preparing a mine of trouble for yourself if you marry him. No foreigner has the same consideration and respect for womanhood that we find among our own men. Women are Inferior creatures, to them- And Heaven help you, if your children should be all girls. That is the greatest of alUictions, and a woman so accursed is much pitied and blamed by her more lucky sisters.

One poor woman who had three darling little daughters told my mother that her husband acted like an Insane man every time his son was denied him. She seemed to feel that he was Justified in his conduct and that slie must have committed some big sin, for which she was being punished. And as to relatives. My mother took two, little children of foreign parentage to board last Summer. Their parents had considerable means and wer of the better class.

They arrived on Thursday, and Saturday afternoon th relatives started to visit them. At one time there wer five automobiles in the yard and each one was packed to overflowing. They brought their lunches, and there were babies In all stages from a month up. They swarmed over th yard and filled the house. The grownups Jabbered and shouted in their foreign lingo.

The babies yelled and howled Incessantly, and the children added their share to the unholy din. Sunday was even worse, as those who cam Saturday came back the next day with reinforcements. The neighbors were frankly curious and thought that my folks must be giving some sort of a charity picnic. It was a unpleasant ordeal and the Sabbath peace and quiet was spoiled for everypoay in the community. Monday morning, bright and early, the boarders were transported back to the ancestral roof.

But it was a week before my mothers jangled nerves got back to normal. Now, supposing that sort of life became a daily routine. How long could any person of great refinement and high ideals stand the horde of relatives with their constant bickerings, foreign jab-berings and crude manners. You would soon find yourself ostracized by your social equals and be forced to step down to your husbands level. He could never rise to yours on account of his family ties.

Why not pick out some nice, clean American of your own class? Dame Dimpling. Life on the Farm Dear Eppie So glad to hear you have a farm too. It is very difficult getting started, isnt it? We have a pump here at the sink top and I feel grateful for that much. No hopes of ever having electricity as the lights are far away from us. Just had our petition for them turned down.

We have a daily income from cows, poultry (which we are dressing for market now) and our wood business, which is very good this year. Presumably the shortage of coal tias a little -i--. with that. But husband has Just pulled nearly a 10) bushels of turnips and we intend to sell some of those, too. Have you an asparagus bed? We have over a 100 new plants and all growing tine also quite a piece of land sowed down with asparagus seed that we shall have to transplant next year.

There Is good money in it if the beds are well cared for. How many cows have you? vv are only selling 110 quarts per day just now. Most of our 175 acres are pine and woodland. hence the chance for quite a wood trade. We raised several bushels, of potatoes this year and our crop of pumpkins was splendid.

I canned 13 pints ready for pies. Yes, I am like you. I find no time to plant each year for our flower garden, so I try to get a good variety perennials started. Have a wondorfui bed of delphiniums planted along beside an old wall, in different shades of blue. Have had several people remark how prettv they looked from the road.

Well, dear Eppie, I feel as though I had quite a chat with you tonight, but there is one more thing I must tell you. We have started on our Winter menu, roast pork and home-made sausage, and they taste xvonderful this year. Mother of Twins. Acknowledgments Dear Puck I have kept your designs for yokes, which I shall try later on; also odd edgings. Thank you.

Urlx. Dear Understanding Heart I greatly appreciate your promptness in replying to my appeal concerning my cat. I shall ask our local veterinarian for the medicine you spoke of so thoughtfully. I was very pleased to find you had answered my letter, as I have been a silent admirer of your lovely sentiments for a long time, and thank you, and Dido also, for your attention. Peggtcat.

Dear Lit! Sister Sunshine Many thanks for the cabbage recipe. It sounds good and would be a change, as we only have it with a boiled dinner. It Is one vegetable, think, which commands few ways of serving. Can I send you something In return? A Fireman's Wife. Dear Les I tried your pork chops baked with onions and potatoes.

They are fine. If you have any more good dishes send them along. Thanks for the above. Trlx. Elveda made your apple bread pudding the other day; it sure Is 'fine.

Next time I will have to make twice that amount. Trix. Aunt Ruth I made your cheese wafers. They are. lovely.

Also tried your soft molasses cookies. They did not last long when the children got a taste of them. Trlx. Dear Darbys Joan The plum pie is entirely new to me and I am most grateful to you for sending In the recipe. It trebles in value coming from a friend I canned some of the plums in the Fall and also mad jelly from some.

The juice. If one happens to have any left. Is a welcome addition to fruit punch. Thank you, again, dear Darbvs Joan. Kntre Nous.

Advocate of Coke Thank you so much for answering my request about coke. I will follow your advice. A. Widow. BOY FRIEND 1 FAMILY INCOME Dear Entr Nous Would you help me budget my income? llubby is a farmer.

His wages are per month, house rent free, 3 quarts of milk per day. wood and some vegetables. have a largp garden and I canned considerable. Besides, had a grape vine, also Porter apple tree, so was fthlo to make almost 190 glasses of Jelly. There are two children, 3 and 2 years.

We have no bills but still I cannot seem to save. A one tube radio is our sole means of enjoyment. As I live 6 miles from car-line and 1 mile from bus which connects with cars, we do not get away from home at all to speak of Any advic will be gladly received. I think vour letters arc wonderful. Ionkapoug.

Dear Malird Was so glad to hear about tho new baby. Your burden does look pretty heavy Just now. In a few years, however, the little family will be grown. Let husband help you all possible and train (he children to, also. They are old enough to do many things I couldnt possibly tell you how much admire your mothers and fathers who are rearing families and endeavoring to do a really good Job.

It means so much sacrifice. $12.00 is hardly enough for your food bill, because you must have to buy a lot of milk and here milk Is 15: per qt. On the figures you gave rent should lie per week, heat lighting and gas, insurance. 75c; church, 25c; clothing. food, (or $1 This would leave you $2 50 for other expenses or to pay on the debt.

It must require some planning. Cling to your determination not to worry. Do the best you can each day. I haven't found anyone yet who dors any better. If only tome of the people who are trying to find something to fill their days and cure their ennui would play Santa to some of these little families, what happiness there would be all around.

Never mind, dear Mavhlrd. Some may pass your home on Chiist-mas eve, and looking in upon your dear little family, be willing to exchange all of their comforts for one like it. Entre Nous. Dear Ex-Heiio Girl The expenses you gave, outside the milk, amount to about $10.20 per week. Food, Including milk, $lo; fuel, total, $21.70, which leaves $5 80 for clothing and other things.

Your gas bill seems high. Do you watch It when things begin to cook and turn flame down. Try and save $2 per per week. Just put it away and forget it. If you cant do this trv $1 in a thrift club.

That may look small, but it wont look so small at the- end of th year when you have 52 of these dollars. I think your difficulty is the one that confronts a good many. They know what th regular expenses are, and how much money they take, but they have no idea of what Becomes of the rest of the money. And in that balance lies all of our opportunity to save and do the worth while things. Afotto: Watch the 'balance.

Entre Nous. a have, maybe want to say is I don't want V. your secrets though if you tell me theyre safe. Lut hang it man. I can starve, and that wh it I am do: re.

I came oyer here to or fa.l.ng to claim the bit the guvr.or left. I don stand an arthy ur.Vss I can get proof of jour death, ar.l proof, too. that haven left any survivors Le "wdte' chalrtn? Robert Elders hands were tremol.tiz now; th flnSers were knitted t.gallv together. Yau are marred. Robert.

His brother his face 21 hands. "Yes Bat I dont suppose I ever a-e ray -fe and. chill again. vou' kicked ttXn, stand fully "Now we know where we at any rate. Hadnt you b-tter me why you're afraid to claim the money.7 matter how rich you are.

vou wouldn't object to having a You havent been over here have you? And you must have rne over to see Fmden. ou ha nt even changed your name? booner or il -r youre bound to be discovered. hat's your game, then? Out with it. Robert Elder did not reply. Reggie shrugged h.s shoulders and to walk up and down the room, puffing vigorously at hi- pipe.

"Ihit your cards on the tad-, n. growled. "Im showing you min. 1 11 thaw you comet him? tlso. They traced you to South America, s-covered not long aeo that you been living In Rio.

Inqu.ries are being made there now. If they don't find you thev'il probably find your wife and child, sin--- yoj say voure married." Rbert Kid-u- laughed. "And theyll t.nd out what you've done there. r.o matter how many akasses youve traveled under. Peplta has been telling me the sort of place Rio is.

A few years ago murder was a tine art. If not a pastime; Its common rough now. by a.l accounts. Reggie bent over brother and whispered In his ear; Did you murder someone out there? Is that the trouble? Elder roe to feet and flung his brother ot savagely: "You fool! How dire voi make su-h a suggestion!" Then the id-a sudd-nly struck him as 1 rous. for he broke into a peal of hir-h laughter.

I a murderer. Ive o. ther murdered nor dreamed cf H.s voice rattled In h's throat, the blood Sl-grd face, then left It pale. Reggis was watching hm; once again he ha 1 recourse to the whisky bottle. 1 "ud better takJ a drop.

Robert: voi.r- This astly climate after I expect. Beast I cold, too; if It hadn't been for your river last week my ht' pal upstairs ar.d 1 would have been In of going under." Eideg swaiiovved a little neat wr.lskv. Wa.king unsteadilv to the tall. he lit a cigarette. His brothers a never left He was puzzled; there was a secret which Robert jealous lr guaried.

He felt he had the right rail on the head. Out there In tne o'd-new world, when men of nat tonalities rubbed shoulders, he had committed some crime or series of crimes, the penaitv for which he had years in dodging. He had killed I Why dont you speak? ho blurted Oi. "Were alore here: the girl up-ta're knows nothing, or only that year. brother and rich.

Besides, he's Spanish; she's been devilish good to rre. a month ago I was starving end eh gave me money. Robert Elder had his lip between his Til give you rnont-jn I'll do all can to heip you: send you back to tho Malar Straits or wherever you want go. But Jo umtist leave me alone, you mnt give roe time. Reggie leaned against the mantle-P-eee.

hla hands deep in his trousers that all you have to say?" Thats all fo- the moment." nr good. Then listen to me. Ou-ivnors Dft sornethmg between 5V1m) pounds." )ic moistened his cPs and the little narrow eyes grew rarKious. "If joud been e-'ralght me I'd have been straight with u- If you had had tfc instincts of a Brother or a man, even. I wouldn't have the proposition Im going to Which "That you come up next Wednesday morning with mo to Messrs Finden A- clate who yon are.

put in jour tulni. He waited, breathing heav-y; waited with almost tierce ar.x.etj' for his brothers answer Toure afraid. he blurted out. when rone came, thought so; you darent ft- Then I shall go this verv afternoon. If the otfi.ee is closed Ill go police.

I'll have you shadowed: all not lose eight of you; I wont let you out of the country-. It's half-shares now. my brother; 29.Vx In cash ir me and you can t.vk the rest, go where you like, do what you like. I want pounds that's the price of hy silence." The price of your silence." Robert F.der repeated the words aloud. He trembling, yet he seemed convulsed with inward laughter.

"Blackmail? "Vail it what jou like. I don't care how you get the money, where you get You needn't put anv claim or sclose yourself to Flndens as long as you pay me. The two men faced other; brothers and blackmailers. They looked Into one anothers eyes, and each saw that the other was ashamed. Call me a little cad," Reggie hiccoughed; "I am but Im a hungry little cad.

a thirsty one, too. I never had a fair chance in life we all say that, don't we? You're well fed. well dressed, dean. Touve got money, and you're my brother. IVhats ycur an-wr A gleam of sunshine came through the window, illuminating the dingy little room which Fepita had so carefully dusted and rrepared for Reggie's rich brother.

Outside the world was white, the city Liy wrapped in the pure snow. The muffled Bound ct vou more. IIEN Jean Barry returned home after collecting a number of rejected stories from editorial offices she had so settled It in her own mind to give up story writing that she didn't really mind the fact that she had left the bundle of "dud manuscripts somewhere. I don't know and I don't care, she told herself defiantly and swished a 6udden tear from her eyes. "Just the same I dont see how a person can write six good stories and sell them to the best magazines and then turn out such apparent trash as those." By "those" Jean meant iha eight she had lost on her way home.

John Winter, who found the packet in th subway, glanced through them fr an address, found the name, Dudley Da Joe. and a street and number in the st s. tits, and wondered what to do with them. V1, take them along to old LinKs; hell know whats best and may give him a plot as well, Winter decided. old Rinks happened to be St John Pinks, a writer of no small fame and inters best pal.

"Ifii ked up some poor chaps ravings coming home tonight," he told Binks, and handed over the packet. "Thought Jou might like to give them the casual before sending them back." "Looks as jf he had shopped them all over the place." was Binks interested comrnt nt, and he opened a page or two Consequently, a day or two later, Jean Barry received a letter that first enraged, then amused, then Interested her. It began, "Dear De Voe. and Jean laughed as she habitually did when addressed as a man. "Your stories have come into my hands.

I am going to rewrite and sell them for you. You must be very young and inexperienced in women wiles. Your women characters are feeble women arent like that and manner are, splendid, but characterization awful. I 1 w2nt lo meet 'ou ye, as it 'i-d perhaps weaken my conception i cf these characters or you might trv 1 lnto something I could not stories are quite unslable are 1 see lheV have been je ted. so fetl confident you wont I hvVth Post on ti to yu as each story is published.

Yours, yy anxohilv fv.al! things! I dont know anMhji. about women, don't Oh mac anyway. There may be nothing in this letter but the ravmgs of a slightly demented old chks0" sU11 1 miffht get some tAV.hV a month or two passed? by Jean beg'an to watch the current magazines rather closely. Tih0ti morning Jean opened a lctur In which was a check so big as to make her gasp and clutch her cfat CI7 ani the? 6lng ter all note he anced thfough the short "Watch Rost week of ninth. Jean scarcely ate nor slept until that FridyJ morning dawned when sha cou.d dash out and get the Post.

Tvmre KWa- her own title, by Dudey Ue Voe and St John Binks. "St John Binks seems to me I know that name. muttered Jean as ehe ruTcd home to read the story. There was no slightest doubt of it being an extraordinarily good j-arn now that it was masterfully written. Jean's next act was to write a short note to Binks, care of Rost "Have reserved third table on left at Goiywog.

Thursday evening. Please don disappoint. Will have magazine lying on table. De Voe. ii hon Binks stood In the low doorway of the Goiywog to survey the human contents of that quaint dming place of upper Bohemia, he fell to a eudden wish that someone sitting across the room could be his dinner partner, bhe was xer.

xery alluring. Then. Binks turned hot. then cold, was possessed of a wild desire to escape and a still wilder one to be dragged to his fate. The exquisite decoy was sitting at the third table on the left and was turning the pages of the Post.

Suddenly she miied. John Binks knew that in ine purely feminine way she had recognized him as her collaborator. He went swiftly over and before sitting down opposite her had felt the warming glow in her finger clasp. "You have been perfectly wonderful to me, she was saying, and little sparkle, of electricity seemed to be snapping about her. "If there is that mueh-taJked-of place called a Seventh Heaven you have certainly put me there.

I do want to thank you." St John Binks finally found his voice and to verv good advantage. "You are thanking me there waa only one thought that entered my brain when I stepped through that door and it was that I might be sitting right here and here I am. Isn't life great sometimes?" He was gazing unbelievingly right Into Jean'a intelligent eyes. Sometimes." responded Dudley De Voe, atlas Jean. (Copyright.

1925. McClure Newspaper Syndicate.) GLOBE'S WORD PUZZLE The proper words for th blank spaces all have ttie same five letters which must be changed Into other words to suit th sense. The solution will be printed in tomorrow's Globe. "I plot," Mid Major Brown. To poison oil tho In town.

"And so. In fact. I most confess. I did It from socecss. Then onward marched, he, gayly With his white bravely brist ling.

BUDGETING THE Dear Poor, but Happy I saw your letter asking how to save on J26 a week and just had to write to you. We are so much Ake It amused me. My income is weekly. Hubby, myself and 2-vear-old girl. But we expect a brother in February.

I have four rooms and pantry and only pay $2 weekly for rent. Of course, I have no bathroom, but on my income I Just cant complain. Have gas. electric lights and water, also electric flatiron. At the present time I send my heavy laundry out, 10 pounds washed and Ironed for My insurance is $3 weekly, which includes babv, myself and hubby, and they are all endowment policies, so I call that $3 my savings.

I am going to Join th Christmas Club this year, $-a week; also belong to a building loan bank, $1. So, you see, I really Save $6 a week. I have a number of little envelopes and put money In every pavday. Other expenses are electric lights, 50 cents; coal, milk magazines and papers, 75 cents. All this amounts to $13.75.

I can live on a week. We have an inexpensive sedan which costs about $1 a week to run. But we find it hard at Christmas, dont you? Baby wants so many things and I have so much to get for the new baby. I have my furniture all paid for, so that helps some, but ther were many long weeks when 1 had to pay weekly. Po keep up your courage and let me hear from you.

I know some of the sisters will help us both. Light-Blue. Dear Entre Nous I am very interested in your budgets but none of them seem to fit my case. There are five of us husband, self and three children, aged 6, 4, and 2. Husband's salary is $27.

Weekly expenses are rent, fuel, telephone, gas and electricity. insurance, t0 cents; lodge, 42 cents; milk, not less than hubbys carfares and tobacco money, $2. How much should I allow for food? I have put nothing down for clothing or for doctor, whom we aeldom need. Church Is $1.23 a month. Mabel Helen.

Dear Entre Nous Can you spare a few moments to help still another person with budget problems? I will appreciate It greatly If you will answer Just two questions. I am to play finance officer for this family of six persona during the year to come, beginning with Jan 1. The persons are as follows: The lady of the house, with her daughter (both of them have three meals at home each dav), a schoolboy of 8 years (also has threa meal at home), one man who has breakfast and supper at home and takes lunches, on man who has morning and evening meals at horn hut does not take lunches and one man who has Just the evening meal at home. All are here for dinner on Sundays. Is 17 too much or too little to allow for food for this family each week? This covers the cost of milk and such few kitchen necessities as stove polish, washing soda, an occasional broom or new pan.

What percentage of the Income should represent actual saving? This letter Is from on who finds your letters very interesting, especially the descriptive ones. I admire you very much. Lady Hippity Hop. AUNT HET I always thought Emmie was a Fundamentalist, hut I heard her say darn once when she stuck a needle in her fingers' GLOBES DAILY PUZZLE Sectional FOR EVERY ROOM in the HOME) Artistic period designs fin ishes to match surroundings receding dust-proof glass doors beautiful, convenient, practical, adaptable. 118-120 FEDERAL STREET kind THE -4.