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“The Man Who Came Back”
Hello everybody:
There was a time when Frank S. Helmar of Shamo
kin, Pa., could get a kick out of ghost stories. But not any
more. Frank says the old spook yarns leave him cold now
adays, and never again will any mere piece of fiction make
the hair crawl up the back of his neck. For Frank went up
against the real thing once, and now he knows what a scare
really is. Hold onto your hats while Frank tells us about it,
boys and girls—the strange tale of the Mumbling Ghost!
Quite a few years ago—when Frank had just passed his
eighteenth birthday—he began to get that restless feeling
that comes to most young lads his age—the itch to travel.
It seemed to him that there wasn’t any opportunity for a
young fellow in the little mining and manufacturing town in
which he had grown up. He was tired working in coal holes and hanging
around with the same old gang under the street light every night, so
one day, after work, he tucked a little bundle under his arm and, with
a little lump in his throat, struck out over the hill toward the railroad
tracks and points north, cast, south and west.
Planned to Settle Down in Elmira.
Frank didn’t know where he was going, and he sure got
there. For five years he wandered about in practically all of the
eastern states, working in a factory here and a restaurant there,
doing odd jobs, and sometimes even landing in jail on suspicion
of vagrancy. At the end of five years, Frank found himself work
ing in a silk mill in Elmira, N. Y„ and liking the job and the
town so well that he was planning to settle down.
He had even subscribed to a newspaper back in Shamokin and or
dered it sent to him in Elmira. But it was that newspaper that
proved his undoing. For it not only set his feet to itching again, but
also provided him with the most horrible shock of his whole life.
It was just a little paragraph, way down in the corner of a
page, in one of the first papers that came to him from back home
in Shamokin, but it made the tears fill Frank's eyes. His old pal,
Jack Hasco, so the paragraph said, had been killed that day,
and mangled beyond recognition. Frank felt pretty bad about it
for two or three days, and thinking of Jack ai,so made him wonder
how his other old pals were getting along. And he decided to go
back to the old town for a visit.
He arrived in Shamokin about midnight on February 14, 1929. The
•ky was dark and a storm was brewing. The wind blew fitfully and the
He mumbled t.i an outlandish language.
few people on the streets were wrapped up in heavy overcoats and hur
rying to get in out of the cold. Frank pulled the collar of his own coat
up around his neck and headed for the East Side, where he once had lived.
“It seemed strange to be back home again,” he says. “I had ex
pected to find the East Side improved, but it was still the same old hole,
with its blind alleys and poorly lighted streets. I was heading into an
alley near my old home when I saw a dark form coming toward me.
I saw, as it approached me, that it was a man, and thought it might
be some one I knew. As he came up to me I looked closely at his face.
One look at that fellow's face and Frank felt his body stiffen.
“I let out an insane scream,” he says, "and beads of perspiration
began forming on my cold brow. My heart was beating violently!
I was rooted to the ground! And that face was slowly coming
toward me, its eyes bulging in surprise and a slight smile com
ing to its lips. Yes—you guessed it. It was my old pal—my dead
pal, Jack Ilasco—and he was mumbling! Mumbling .something in
some outlandish language that I couldn’t understand!”
Falls Unconscious in Terrorized Flight.
Frank fought to pull himself together. Gathering up all the
energy that was left in his weakened, trembling body, he let out
another wild yell and, with a leap and a bound, he practically
flew out of that alley. “Then I ran,” he says. “Ran on and on,
until everything turned black in front of me and I slid in a heap
to the ground. When I regained consciousness strange faces were
looking down at me. When I told them my story they looked in
credulously at one another, said I was drunk, and walked away.
I picked my,self up, brushed off my clothing and moved on.”
A little way down the street, Frank saw the lights of an all-night
lunch wagon. A cup of coffee would go good after his experience, and
it might help him pull himself together. He was sitting on a stool in
the lunch room sipping his coffee when the door opened and another
familiar figure came in.
But this time it was a LIVING figure. Baldy Williams, another
member of the old gang. Never in Frank’s life had the sight of an old
friend thrilled him so. “Baldy!” he yelled. And Baldy said, “Why,
Frank Helmar, where in the heck have you been all these years.” And
for the next few minutes they talked about Frank's travels, but Frank
wasn’t long in bringing up the story of his strange experience.
Friend Explains Weird Reunion.
As he talked on, he saw a twinkle come into Baldy’s eyes. The
twinkle turned into a broad grin. Frank wondered why Baldy was
laughing at him. Did Baldy think he was drunk too? At last Baldy
put up a hand and laid it on Frank’s shoulder.
“Take it easy, Frank,” he said. “Don’t let this get you down.
What you read in the paper about a Jack Haseo being killed is
true enough, but there were two Jack Hascos in Shamokin. The
one who wa,s killed came from the West End. Our old pal,
Jack, is just as much alive as you or I.”
That sounded swell to Frank, but still he wasn’t convinced.
“But the mumbling!” he cried. “It was ghastly. Jack never
talked like that!”
Again Baldy smiled—a little sadly this time. ’’Well, that’s another
thing,” he said. “You see. Jack had an accident a few years ago,
and he lost half of his tongue.”
Copyright—WNU Service.
‘Vintage Years’ for Perfumes
Everyone knows that wines have
certain “vintage years” when sun,
rain and all other conditions com
bine to produce grapes which give
an unusually fine product. These
years do not come frequently and
wine of a “vintage” year generally
brings a much higher price. Few
persons know that there are also
“vintage years” for perfumes.
These are seasons when climatic
conditions are such that the flowers
are more luxuriant, richer in fra
grance, more abundant in variety.
Many of the great perfume houses
stock up in these vintage years, to
protect themselves against crop
failures, etc.
Indians Expert Tanners
Few animals have escaped the ex
perimenting itch of the tanner.
North American Indians are report
ed to have preserved the skins of
150 different species of animals.
Even the skins of the seal, walrus,
ostrich, alligator, snake, frog and
shark have been tanned commer.
dally. Bird and rodent skins are
usually too small and fragile for
wear. A morbid historical refer
ence also excludes human skin from
commercial tanning, although there
is evidence that the weird ritu
al has been performed. In 1829
the skin of the murderer William
Burke was preserved after his exe
cution in Scotland.
WHO’S
NEWS
THIS
WEEK
By LEMUEL F. PARTON
NEW YORK.—This writer, en
countering Frederick Jagel of
the Metropolitan Opera at luncheon
the other day. quizzed him about
. his season at
Operatic Star Buenos Aires.
Suggette New from which he
Line of Export r « <= e n 11 y re
r turned. He
thinks cultural penetration of South
America might be more effective
than our trade and diplomatic mis
sions, in which he is inclined to be
lieve we aren’t getting anywhere.
South America has long had
the idea that wc were a nation
of hard-boiled money-grubbers.
Any creditable performance in
the arts, he believes, will be our
best line of export. He said he
found the Argentines most gen
erous and appreciative hosts.
Once they find you haven’t an
extra ace in your cuff and you
measure up to their standard of
propriety, they wear their
hearts on their sleeve.
Incidentally, Mr. Jagel’s singing
makes audiences weep, but no one
meeting him ever feels sorry for
him. He is a businesslike, compact
Brooklynite, formerly an actuary
with the Mutual Life Insurance com
pany, long before he took his perch
In the old red plush aviary, where,
on occasion, he still hits high C.
As an actuary, young Mr Jagel,
charting other careers, began to
think of his own career. He tossed
his insurance job out of the window,
found a backer, sang in movie
houses up and down Broadway and
proved to all and sundry that he
had a voice. He studied with Porta
nova in New York and with Cala
dini in Milan. Making his operatic
debut in Milan, in “La Boheme,”
he hit Rodolfo's high C with a bull’s
eye that greatly improved Italo
American relations. He sang for
four seasons in Italy, before making
his New York debut as Radames,
on November 8, 1927. He knows
about 40 roles, and 26 of them he
can sing offhand and on the slightest
provocation.
With the precision and clarity
of a man trained in business, he
tells you of the superiority of
our South American competitors
in their specialty of quid-pro
quo trade economics. Hence,
his talk of “cultural penetra
tion’’ isn't just ivory tower stuff.
If Secretary Hull could sing as
well as Mr. Jagel can talk in
ternational trade, he, too, would
be in the Metropolitan.
Mr. Jagel thinks we have the mak
ing of a grand musical renaissance
in this country, with talent, teach
ers and a fine national appreciation
vastly enhanced by the radio.
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'T'HE amiable white magic of John
Mulholland once enabled me to
deal myself four aces against an
other’s four kings, which, of course,
revived faltering
Mystiner Says hopes of the ex
Mystagoguery istence of kindly
Just ‘Ain’t So’
Mr. Mulholland
was wired in and whom he could
summon in behalf of his friends.
But now one of the cleverest magi
cians in the country—the cleverest,
to this none-too-seeing eye—pub
lishes a book, ‘‘Beware Familiar
Spirits," in which he banishes all
trolls and makes all magic just
manual dexterity and technique. It
isn’t exactly a debunking book. He
leaves the door open for faith in
the occult, if you think you have
evidence, but, as to prevailing mys
tagoguery, he reduces it to fraud or
to honest self-deception, aided by
slow eyesight.
He sold school books and was a
teacher of dramatics and industrial
arts at Columbia university, before
he became a full-time magician and
vice president of Society of Amer
ican Magicians. He has performed
and lectured in about 40 countries.
Nobody, anywhere, ever had
more fun. He likes to shepherd
four or five friends through a
subway turnstile, with one nick
el, making it reissue from the
slot each time and click through
the next man. That brings the
change dealer roaring from his
den. Mr. Mulholland hands
him a half-dollar, the wayfar
ers take their train, and then
the dealer finds he has an alum
inum disk with a rabbit in a silk
hat on it. He usually screams
and butts his head against the
wall. But, in each case, the
subway already has its full
count of sound nickels.
As to the above poker hands, it
happened at a luncheon table of five
or six men. Mr. Mulholland sent
for a new deck of cards and asked
me to shuflle them and deal four
hands. It couldn't have been a
trained deck. It was thoroughly
shuffled. Mr. Mulholland never
touched the cards, standing with his
back turned a few feet away, and
never said a word. The hands fell
as he ordered, the orders apparent
ly issuing silently from the back oi
his head.
0 Consolidated News Features.
WNU Service.
Dress Charmingly Within
Limited Budget; Here's How
By CHERIE NICHOLAS
——HIM IIMIIIMUM X
HERE’S an encouraging word to
the woman whose wardrobe up
keep must needs be held down to a
limited budget. The skirt with con
trast tops leads the style program
this season. With the separate skirt
or simple foundation dress and a
flock of flattering sweaters, jackets
and blouses tuned to occasion you
can dress as well as the next one
and not be extravagant especially if
you "make your own.”
Here’s hoping the suggestions of
fered in the accompanying illustra
tion will prove an inspiration to get
busy sewing, knitting and embroi
dering on a wardrobe of pretty
things that will carry you trium
phantly through the season from the
dress standpoint.
Let's start with the right skirt
to wear with the right top accom
paniment. It is easily possible to
carry on a well-dressed appearance
with two skirts in one’s wardrobe,
a wool or crepe for routine wear
plus a velvet or handsome crepe or
slipper satin weave for more for
mal wear. However, you can go as
far as you like in laying in a supply
of skirts and then not have too many
if you go a lot. A tweed, a colorful
plaid, a pleated-all-round type, a
smartly fashioned crepe or satin for
day with a floor-length velvet or
crepe for evening formality, are
none too many.
Of course, with your tweeds and
your plaids you will want a swank
utilitarian sweater. The model pic
tured to the left in the group is eas
ily knit. You will love it because it
is so unusual. It has style distinc
tion written all over it in that it is
knit in a different way, using two
patternings that contrast a vertical
and horizontal handling. A soft
wool yarn in a delectable deep rasp
berry pink is used for the knitting
of this clever sweater.
If it’s something a wee bit dress
ier you are wanting, a touch of gay
hand-embroidery will do just that.
See what can be done in the way of
intriguing embroidery in the sweat
er blouse below to the right. The
model pictured is knitted of rust red
wool and the embroidery is done
in riotous flower colors.
Coming to the dressier modes,
handsome laces of every type and
description make the news head
lines for blouse and jacket and bo
lero fantasies in a big way. It’s
almost like magic the way a bit of
lace transforms into a jacket or
blouse masterpiece and even if you
are not an expert in making things,
a charming jacket-blouse or bolero
as pictured can be put together with
little effort. A collection of lace
tops will array you glamorously
wherever you go.
A lace bolero does wonders in
dressing you up, and does it click
charmingly with last year’s frocks!
It is never so welcome and useful
as at the tail-end of winter when
you are feeling a bit jaded with
dark dresses and feel the need of
something to perk them up. The
carickmacross lace bolero which
you see pictured above to the right
will sound a refreshing new note for
your wardrobe. Scalloped all around
the edges it silhouettes effectively
against the background of a black
dress in either street or evening
length.
A dress-up jacket-blouse to be
worn with skirt or suit lends allure
to your formal afternoon or eve
ning costume. You can get the fine
leaf-patterned lace that fashions the
jacket-blouse pictured below to the
left in ravishing colors or in black.
The glittering rhinestone buttons
complete the formal look,
i C Western Newspaper Union.
Women Must
Utilize Their
Natural Gifts
By PATRICIA LINDSAY
SOMEONE has said, “No beau
ties are born, all are made."
And what hope and encouragement
to all women lie in that statement!
True it is that few of us are born
beautiful but persistency in making
the most of what Nature endowed
us with does make us attractive.
And after all, it is the interesting
looking woman today, rather than
the pretty-pretty, who Is recognized
and toasted as the modern beauty.
The woman who has developed her
natural gifts by being beauty-loving
and beauty-seeking.
Gone are the days when one’s ear
nest devotion to good looks was
frowned upon, or when doctors
voiced their disapproval of cosmet
ics. Today it is considered a wom
an’s duty to society to be as lovely
as possible and leading physicians
believe strongly that the healthy,
normal woman should keep astride
of her times and make herself most
attractive.
No matter what your age, your oc
cupation, your circumstances, you
owe it to yourself as a woman, and
to those around you, to make the
most of your feminine heritage.
Husbands and children alike uncon
sciously dote on wives and mothers
who have not allowed themselves to
become duds. Proud is the child
who can produce a personable moth
er to show his friends and school
mates.
—But Don't
Be Extravagant!
But in seeking beauty, I do not
advocate spending the rent or gro
cery money on expensive treat
ments or a flossy wardrobe. No in
deed. If you can afford such lux
uries well and good, but don’t en
courage frowns and wrinkles and a
distorted mind by fretting over what
you cannot have. You can exer
cise your body into a pleasing fig
ure just as well in your own home
as you can in a costly studio. Cur
rent newspapers and magazines of
fer sound advice on meticulous
grooming and body care, so there
is little excuse for you to moan
because you have not the where
withal for frequent visits to beauty
salons.
Every woman’s budget, however,
should allow for occasional visits to
a reliable physician to check her
general health and diet, and also
Myrna Loy epitomizes the
charm for which women should
strive. An arresting, smiling
personality, an interest in her
work, and a piquant beauty,
enhanced by scrupulous
grooming.
for a few good cosmetics—specific
aids for ailing skin or hair and
those necessary to preserve person
al daintiness. To these, every wom
an has a right—they assist her men
tally.
But just as pertinent as cosmetics
to a woman’s loveliness is the right
approach to living. Gracious
thoughts and characteristics, an ac
tive interest in something other than
herself and her home, a desire to
be an inspiration to society, rather
than a burden. Such attainments
certainly enhance the charm any
woman creates by being pleasing to
look at.
Keep Child's Mind
Active
If you are truly concerned about
her beauty you cannot fai.^ to keep
her mind active and growing. What
nonsense to allow her to concen
trate on make-up! Teach her simple
daily groomings. Fill her day with
small duties and childish pleas
ures. Let her grow! Every child
loves to be read to. Every child
loves to paint and draw pictures.
Think up new activities that will
teach her to be self-reliant.
There is no beauty as appealing
in all the world as a child’s beauty.
It must be held sacred. It must
not be scarred by stupid parents
who feel that artificial beauty aids
can possibly make their child more
attractive!
Body health, skin health, mental
health are the goals to be reached.
Help your child by concentrating
on those. She will grow to lovely
womanhood, happy in the knowl
edge that her parents were wise par
ents who did not sacrifice her youth
needlessly.
• Bell Syndicate.—WNU Service.
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PATENTS—INVENTIONS
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Easy Cut work Will
Delight the Beginner
Pattern 6237.
Anyone who can do simple but
tonhole stitch (that’s all cutwork
is) can have lovely linens such
as these. Here are a number of
motifs suitable for those smaller
useful linens—scarfs, towels, pil
low cases and tea cloths. Begin
now. Pattern 6237 contains a
transfer pattern of 14 motifs rang
ing from 3 by 3 inches to 3% by
15 inches; materials needed; color
schemes.
To obtain this pattern, send 11
cents in coins to The Sewing Cir
cle, Household Arts Dept., 259
West 14th St., New York, N. Y.
CONSTIPATED?
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ALWAYS CARRY QUICK RELIEF
FOR ACID
INDIGESTION
Every Opportunity
A man must make his opportu
nity, as oft as find it.—Francis
Bacon.
How Women
in Their 40’s '
Can Attract Men
Here’s good advice (or a woman during her
change (usually from 38 to 52), who fears
•he’ll lose her appeal to men, who worries
about hot flashes, loss of pep, dizzy spells,
upset nerves and moody spells.
Get more fresh air, 8 nrs. sleep and if you
need a good general system tonic take Lydia
E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound, made
especially /or women. It helps Nature build
up physical resistance, thus helps give more
vivacity to enjoy life and assist calming
jittery nerves and disturbing symptoms that
often accompany change of life. WELL
WORTH TRYING!
Fool Lures Fool
A fool always finds a greater
fool to admire him.—Boileau.
Don’t Sleep When
Gas Crowds Heart
If you toss in bed and can’t sleep from oo»
stipation and awful GAS BLOATING remem
ber this: To get quiok relief you must gat
DOUBLE ACTION. You must relieve the
GAS. You must clear the bowels. Adlerika
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etomach and BOTH bowels. Adlerika la
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gently clear the bowels of waste matter that
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etomach, sleepless nights and indigestion for
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at once. Adlerika usually acts on the bowela
In less than two hours. No waiting for over
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Help Thera Clean.ee the Blood
of Harmful Body Waste
Your kidneys are constantly filtering
waste matter from the blood stream. But
kidneys sometimes lag in their work—do
not act as Nature Intended—fail to re
move impurities that, if retained, may
poison the system and upset the whole
body machinery.
Symptoms may be nagging backache^
persistent headache, attacks of dizziness,
getting up nights, swelling, puffiness
under the eyes—a feeling of nervous
anxiety and loss of pep and strength.
Other signs of kidney or bladder dia*
order may be burning, scanty or too
frequent urination.
There should be no doubt that prompt
treatment is wiser than neglect. Use
Doan’s Pills. Doan's have been winning
new friends for more than forty years.
They have a ration-wide reputation.
Are recommended by grateful people the
country over. Ask your neighbor]
In Sleek Satin
Slipper satin in dark or evening
shades is playing an outstanding
role for dine and dance wear. It is
fashionable either in dark or pastel
shades. Youth is in the red this
season and no mistake about it.
This time it is in gorgeous ruby red
sleek satin
Give White Bead
Embroidery Trim
Among newcomers in the field of
popularity are very attractive black
dresses for afternoon wear that are
prettified with white bead embroi
dery. The character of the embroi
dered motifs are unique. Some
times the embroidery is done
around the neckline in the new neck
lace effect. Likely as not there will
be a dash of the white beadwork
on the girdle or belt.
The newest of the new is for a
single spray of flowers to be worked
on the bodice top with not a vestige
of white beads showing elsewhere. ]
The effect takes place of a flattering
corsage worn on the left front shoul- i
der.
Patterned Hats
Patterned fabrics in colorful de
signs are being shown in the mid
season hats. They are striped cot
ton that are East Indian in feeling,
as well as small cotton plaids.
Touch of Color
The woman who clings to the pref
erence of black costumes this sea
son is likely to add a touch of color
by means of gloves.
Flounces
Flounces offer the most sensa
tional developments in coat and
dress silhouettes that have appeared
in many days.
White Metal Ear Clips
A Paris woman has ear clips of a
very white metal on which her ini
tials have been engraved.