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About The Omaha morning bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 3, 1924)
STELLA DALLAS By Olive Higgins Prouty. SYNOPSIS. Deserted by lier husband, Stephen Dallas, because of tier frivolity and flirta tions, Stella Dallas, with her daughter' laurel, 18, lives In the "cheapest room’1 of a fashionable hotel In Milhampton, Mass. Luurel goes on a visit to her father in New York and he leaves her at tht home of Mrs. Morrison, a friend, while he Is away on a trip to Chicago. After see ing: her daughter aboard the train In Koston Stella goes to a cafe, where she meets an old admirer, Alfred Munn, with whom she attends a musical farce, and she continues receiving his attentions while l4iurel Is away. (Continued From Yesterday.) It had been Stella's Intention to keep lip her masquerade with Ed Munn to the end of the month (she did admire a good sport), but. my goodness, sho wasn't a Sarah Bern hardt. Ed got terribly insistent that day she let her mind trail off to Laurel. She simply had to come out with the truth. "I'm sorry, Ed,” she sighed, as she drew away her hand with a little jerk. At that he simply Imprisoned onei of her feet under the table between two of his, and leaned towards her, his eyes still gobbling her up. She drew away her foot, too, and perched It safely on the rung of her chair. “Nothing doing. Ed," she shrugged. "What’s the matter?” he inquired. Omaha Welfare Federation and Community Chest Room 305, City Hall For convenience of donors to Community Chest, payments on pledges can now be made at any one of the following banks or mailed to headquarters, 305 City Hall: IIEXSOTf Rank of Benson Farmers’ and Merchants’ Bank SOUTH SIDE Live Stock National Bank Packers’ National Bank Security SP'te Bank. South Oma Savings Bank Stock Yards National Bank Quarterly payments on pledges are payable January J. March 1, July 1 and Sept. 1. FLORENCE Bank of Florence Commercial State Bank OMAHA Corn Exchange National Bank jf First National Bank Merchants’ National Bank Omaha National Bank Peters National Bank State Bank of Omaha Union State Bank United States National Bank 'J’lie cost of this advertisement is donated by a friend and Is an effort to avoid the expense of mailing notices to over 10,000 sub scribers. She hadn't shown squeamlshness be fore. "What's got Into you all of a sudden?" “I guess it’s age, Ed," she confess ed. "and It isn't all of a suddefl.” He merely laughed at that and tried to grasp her hand again. But she wouldn't let him. He frowned. Flushed a little, "I don't wonder you’re mad, Ed.” "I didn’t say I was mad.” "But you aren’t pleased, I guess. I know. Ed, listen. I don't blame you a bit. I’m disgusted myself with the way I act, with the way I feel, or the way I don’t feel. But don't, please, think it's anything personal. There's no man living could get me really-going now. It Isn't your fault. It’s Lollies. It's that darnel little Lollle's fault:" she brought out fierce ly. “I'm no good for anything any more except to be her mother I'm so crazy about Lollie that she uses up all the emotion I've got, so I’m Just sort of dead ashes with everybody else In the world." "You're alive enough for me.” But Stella was deaf to flattery now. "Ed," she exclaimed, “I simply wor ship Laurel!” And the expression that forced Its way through the make up on her faco had somtfthing sub lime about it. A tear splashed down her cheeks. "You see!" She shrug ged and shamelessly began to wipe her eyes. “Oil, it makes me so mad!" Ed Munn leaned over and patted her on the arm, big-brother fashion. "That's all right. That's all right." Stella blew her nose. “I’m terribly sorry.” "Y'ou needn't be. I’m satisfied. I'm not asking you to get all excited over me. I like a woman all the bet ter for being fond of her own kid.” "Oh, Ed, you are nice!” She warm ed towards him. 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WA. 5600 t WILKE & MITCHELL HA 0284 £J A. E SNYGG & SON WA 0570 f¥V E. KARSCH CO.AT. 7701 SKUPA & SWOBODA MA. 1066 I % * o 0 <t> v: 0 H* s or vi H i £ R •« w 0 VJ 1 CO I M ISave Money in 1924 by Trading at a Buy Rite Store i what tack to pursue), the lew limes I've seen the offspring I've thought to myself, what a peach of a kid she was." “Oh, she'* wonderful, Ed. I'd (lie without her!" And again the tears welled up In her eyes. "Sure you would! Well, I’ve no in tention of kidnaping her." You see, an Stella told Effle Mc Davitt afterwards, she and Ed had a perfect understanding. 3. When Stella paid her bill of indebt edness to the proprietor of the board ing house at Belcher’s Beach, for al lowing her to economize for a month on his property, it was with a feeling of triumph and with the comforting sense of a disagreeable job well done. There were those, however, who re garded Stella’s sojourn In a different light. Stella was blissfully unaware that any one except Effle and Ed even know of the sojourn, any one who had any connection with Mill hampton. As the train sped along towards the city, at the end of her ordeal, she was happy with the simple joy of re lease. She smiled and her heart sang, automatically almost, a little as a kitten purrs when It cornea li^ out of the rain and sees the warm fire on the hearth. She had no premonition of the nest of bombs lying In her let ter-box among the other letters and communications that had arrived too near the date of her return to be for warded. Stella harl not seen the auto mobile standing on the other side of the street from the boarding house at Belcher's Beach the late Saturday night when Ed had brought her back and left her as usual at the foot of the stairs that led up to h»r ro«*i. She had not seen the same automobile the next morning on the Boulevard as she and Ed had started out for lunch In Boston. The day after Myrtle Holland and Mrs. Kay Bird had seen Alfred Munn follow Stella Dallas Into the boarding house—but had not seen him come out—they had driven to Belcher’s Beach again. Myrtle Holland was oc cupying a summer cottage, that year, 80 miles Inland. She had never been to Belcher's Beach before. It was only because the chauffeur had lost the road that she happened to be driving through such a place at all. Myrtle Holland w-anted to Inspect Stella’s boardinghouse by daylight. She told Mrs. Kay Bird she wanted to point It out to her husband so he might look it up and see what sort or a place it was. It chanced to be over the only week end of Laurel's alieence, when Ed Munn had both a Saturday and Sun day engagement with Stella, that Myr tle Holland and Mrs. Kay Bird made their two visits to Belcher's Beach. On the second visit they had been al most as excited as on their first They had seen Ed Munn and Stella Dallas again! The pair were leaving the boarding house this time! It was 11 In the morning! It looked pretty bad, didn’t It? It looked still worse when Mrs. Hol land called at the fashionable hotel, -where Mrs. Kay Bird had heard Stella Dallas was spending the season, and discovered that Mrs. Dallas hadn't been there for three weeks! And that her fnrwnrding address was care of a Mrs. Effle McDavItt, In a very queer part of Mllhampton, way down by the mills somewhere. Obviously Stella Dallas had done her best to cover up her tracks. Oh, wasn't It all too shocking for anything? "Probably those two have been car rying on their little affair, off and on, ever since the scandal about them when her husband left her. T would n't lrelieve then that she'd really gone the limit (I'm always slow at Jumping to conclusions of that sort); but now, r do not see that we can very well help believing the worst. My husband says that Belcher’s Beach Is full of questionable places. He didn't care to go Into an Investigation of this par ticular ons, but you can see by look ing at It—so dirty, and run down, and ramshackle—and by observing the wo men who come out of If. what sort of a place It was. Stella Dallas herself looked a little more common and ordi nary than ever—paint Just plied on, and that riding teacher—Mu«n—has degenerated terribly. Oh. It makea my Mood boil to think that the mother of one of the girls, with whom our daugh ters associate daily at the little prl vate school we're all supporting and protecting to the best of our ability, should be carrying on an affair of that sort In a place of that sort. As one of the trustees of Miss Fllllbrown's school, there's only one course open to me. A thing like that can't be known about a woman, and countenanced, can It?'* "Certainly not,” waa tha general dictum. “I for one won’t countenance It anyhow." announced Mrs. Kay Bird, with emphasis. "Either Mrs. Dallae moves out of the King Arthur or I do. I had to play bridge with her twice last winter!" “And either her child Is removed from MDs Kllllbrown's or mine Is," another vole* proclaimed. This conversation took rlaee In Myr tle Holland's living room a few days after her return to Mllhampton, in late September. There were half a dosen women gathered round the tea table, "But." feebly oheerved one of them, "there’s Just a possibility you're mis taken, Myrtle, isn’t there?” "Oh. sweet protector of the lnno cent, virtuous defender of the ma ligned,” laughed Mrs. Kay Bird. “My dear Mabel." Myrtle replied, "there's Just a poseiblVty that a man who frequents corner saloons doesn't drink, hut It's rather slight. I fear and anyhow, whether he drlnke ng not, the fact that he enjoys the oom pany and atmosphere of corner *a loons Is sufficient to bar him from certain drawlng-rooma. Dear me. Mae lie], haven't we all endured Stella Dallas years enough In this town to satisfy you? I. for one, don't enjoy torturing animals even though sopie of them don't seem to mind It very mueh. Thnt woman Is In for s lot of disappointments when that child of hcr's she’s always using, to boost her self/into some sort of prominence, l» older. The time has come, for her ask*, as well as ours, to put an end to all further suffering." "The child seems quit# a nice little thing.” "But how long will »he stay quite a nice little thing with a mother like that? Really. Mabel!” "And a nice little thing or not," spoke up somebody from the other side of the honrth. "I'm sure 1 don't want iny son meeting her at dances, nnd things, s« he grows up, and run the risk of having him fall In love with a girl with such a mother!” "Oh, Isn't It sad?" deplored Phyllis Stearns, with a sanctimonious sigh, ::thal women exist who care so little for their children ss Stella Dallas’ I used to know her very slightly, when she was first married, and he* for* her child was ever born she didn't want her. And now she goes off with a man like that! Oh!" "Such a woman doesn’t deserve to have a child." exclaimed Mrs. Kay Bird, who had successfully avoided ever having had one herself. fllslla waa wifely In the haven nf her two-roomssnd a hath nt the Klne Arthur when ehe opened her mall. Hhe hnd Jnet enmo up from luncheon In thn dining-room below, where ehe hnd greeted eveihndy ehe l«new with her u*unl cordiality. "He It even an apartment hotel, there'* no place IJhc home!" »he had laughed to Mr*. Km Itlrd. •'Orm Ion*, hut till* placa nee no Rood to me!" ehe had thrown aero** to the young doctor who ate nt the table neat to her*! end to the two <vhlta.Heir»d eld ledlee who occasional ly asked her ot hii evening to make a fourth at auction, "All leady for a game, any time," she had exclaimed. She was still purring as she moved about the three rooms which were hers and Laurel's alone, humming In u low tone to herself, delighting in their luxury and their comfort, as ehe laid away her hat and veil and gloves, bug and umbrella, in their old famil iar nooks and corners. She sat down on the edge of her bed to open her mail. There was a postcard from Laurel. She read that first. There was a note from Miss Simpson, verifying the hour of Laur el's arrival. She read that next. Af ter Miss Simpson's note there were two announcements of fall openings; a bill: a receipt; then suddenly oc curred an explosion of one of the bombs! Miss Filllbrown regretted that owing to the unexpected increase of pupils .In Laurel's class, there would bo no place for her next year! Stella's low humming ceased abrupt ly. She read the note again. She read it a tMrd time. She was aware of a certain familiar heart-burning sensation which usually followed an nouncements of this sort. No place for Laurel at Miss Filllbrown'*? Oh. that was cruel. There was no other private school In Milbampton. Laurel couldn't go to a public school. No body did—except foreigners. No place for Laurel at Miss Filllbrown a! There must he some mistake. But deep in her heart Stella knew there was no mistake. Experience had taught her there never was & mistake in the cruel stabs dealt her. (Continued tn The Mornln* Bee.) Burgess Bedtime Stories By THORNTON W. BURGE88. Who of difaater mak^s the b#et Doth prove h!a fitneae by the test. —Old Mother Natura. Danny and Nanny Find a New Home. Danny and Nanny Meadow Mouse stopped Just long enough to see that the great man*blrd had a broken wing and was standing on Its head. Then they hurried away as fast as their short legs could take them. They had had such a fright In their dreadful fall that their only thought was to get away from there as soon as pos sible. Now, the great man-bird had fallen on the edge of the garden of the owner of the little house Danny and Nanny had looked down on. That house wasn't much of a house. It was the home of a settler. You know a settler is a man or woman who goes Into a land where few or no other hu man beings live and there cuts away the trees' and plants, sows his seed and raises crops, and so makes a farm. This place was the beginning r>e a farm, and it was a long, long way from any other farm. But, of to.ii .-e, Danny and Nanny didn't know this. They ran until they were quite out of breath and had to stop. Then they l>egan to take notice of things. Nen ny was very much upset. "Whatever are we going to do now,” she whim pered. "We haven't any place to go. We don't know where we are." "Yes, we do,” said Danny. "We know we are right here." But Nanny was too much upset to Join in Danny’s chuckle at his own Joke. Danny saw this. "Don't you worry," said he. “I guess If we look around we can find a place to make Whatever are we going to do now!” ahe whimpered. a new home. That place where we fell la a garden, or I don't know one when I eee It. That means there I* gure to he plenty of food, for wherever man tg there !g food. I suppose we can go back to that man-bird.” •'No.” declared Nanny mogt decided ly. 'Tine fall out of the sky Is enough for me. Now I am on the ground, I mean to »tay here." ‘•All right.” replied Danny cheerful ly. ''Wa ll look around for a place for a new home.” Now, on tbe Green Meadows up North Nanny had always been the one to lead when they were looking for a new home. But down here, In thla new, strange Sunny South, it was Danny who led the way. Danny already had had some experience. Besides, In him was the spirit of ad venture. So Donny led and Nanny meekly followed. She kept right at Danny's heels. Bhe v\;.s ar ' 1 of log Girls! Girls!! Save Your Hair With Cuticura »nd Ointmwil to fl»«r IHodrofl|H tmth 3»»uJ-frw of d»>umr».T£pt £ >U14—.1U— For Colds and Throat [Troubles | OVH BUTY-tlBHT YURI M> IUO#l>* tng Danny and being left all alone. Danny kept along the edge of that garden. He remembered how easily he had lost his way the first time he had left the great man-bird. He didn't Intend to get lopt thia time. By and by they came TO the stump of a tree on the very edge of that garden. "This is the place,” declared Dan ny. And between two roots, which grew very close together, he began to dig. The soil was very sandy and It Was easy digging. Danny never had found easier digging. Right in under the stump he dug and mude a little room there. Of course, Nanny helped him. When at last they had a little room big enough they stopped dig ging. “There,” arid Danny. "We'll make a nice bed In here, and then we’ll have as good a home as any one could ask for. Those roots will keep any one from digging us out. I don't think we'll have anything to worry about here.” The next story: "Danny and Nanny Discover a Relative." Big U. S. Naval Movement on Washington, Jan. 2.—The greatest American naval and trOop movement which has taken place since the world war, got under way today. More than 3,000 United Slates marines em barked at Quantleo, Va., on the transports, Henderson and Chaumont, for a trip to the Caribbean sea, white more than 100 warships left their sta tions In the Pacific and Atlantic and steamed toward Panama. The naval forces are being concen trated in southern waters for a series of battle exercises and maneuvers, In which the strength of the Panama canal and the ability to attack and de fend a fortified land base will be tested. Marines embarked at Quantleo will form the land army tn the Panama maneuvers. Including infantry, artil lery, tanks, machine gun batteries, trench mortars, gas companies, sap pers, engineers, wireless and tele phone units. Call Rian Congress. Atlanta, Ga., Jan. 2.—E. Y. Clarke, Imperial giant, today Issued a call for a national congrese of the Ku Klux Klan to meet In Atlanta on February 26 to "gather together and prayerfully consider methods to ellm lnate existing evils, or else to follow the example of the founder of the original Ku Klux Klan, and have the courage and manhood to devise ways and means for the Immediate dis bandment of the organization." Gets $10; Fined $500. Louis J. Fadanelli, 711 South Nine teenth street, sold four pints of gin New Year's eve, for 110. It looked like a good profit until he learned the four customers were agents of Prohibition Agent Samar dli-k. They returned, tooked the marked money from him and Wednes day he pleaded guilty In federal court and wa* fined J5o0, which he paid. 12 Dead Rum Toll in N. Y. New Lear New York, Jan. 2.—Twelve dead, 241 111, some critically—that was New York's toll from holiday "hooch" drinking, a survey revealed today. Police said the figures were double those of last year, embracing the toll of both Christmas and New Year's. Some observers Insisted It had been the wettest holiday celebration In year*—even before prohibition. William Anderson, proprietor of the state's Antl-Kaloon league, contended, however, that the New Year celebrar tlon was "'quite dry.” Arrests were few, only four persons being charged with a liquor law violation since New Year's eve. 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