f Stella Dallas l!v OI.l\ HIM.IVS PltOl’TV \OP8I9. Vft**r i ear* -• imrati«tti Stella • Villa* I* rei|iii>itcil liv her husband'* at torney to act a HELLO .OLt> SCOOT » 50 THEY HNALLY GOT WOO — GETTING OLD - SLOVsHNG UP A \i\T_EH ? CANT GET OUT OF J \_TWE U)AY ANV MOt^E __r HELLO, CAESMi UE'T • A S’CSHT FOQ SOftE ,LYES ! ? _ IJ fSW ,TvAE U)fW THAT BA3V CAME AROUNdS THAT CORNER, A SWALLOW COULDN'T HAME FLOWN OUT OT MVS WAV. AND THAT AVNT f THE WORST OF (T-THEVNSURAHCE CO. VS ) TRWNG To MAKE ME BELvEVE l WAS /1 TRVNG TO ComvMT SUnCvDL - THEV 1 ir-~) OFFER-ED ME SlOO * / A v---r—V 1924, by Th» B«U Syndinte. Inc. / ■DOMtTtAKE \r * TH\S \NSoRAViCE \ ( AND LEV’LL TELL THE^ LUHAT THE ~ COMPANY OoNS AN OLD Do\ED(NG (MATTER'S * THAT THEV Don V ADJUST) tH'STOUjN AND LLL 6'C A EOT ElVthEiR CLAIMS - THAT A FRiEnD OF ' CjF INSPECTORS OF ELEVATORS. O^OKE, X OURS - RUDOLPH NEDE - LWAS RUN /a,U'UDING , ELECTRlCVW AnD IUEGLVMnG ON1 oy ^ alTONCS'LE . AND in A • | m.AND THEN'LL FIND 60 N\UC.M FAULT , CEuj DANS AN ADJUSTER NU'LlTRN TO -i UirfH THAT OLD BU\EDIN6 THAT THAT 'OOP A*. 'NTO NC.UR HOUSE AT G A_N} • Jj ^-VINSuRANCE QkONCH LULL CONlL,^ p, p^Cj OF DOUGH TO .ADJUST \ A --“1D0U3N TOTULOTVj ; &uR CLAih? - AND HE’LL NICE | Wl TO FIND OUT l \ AND POLITE - SAV 'PtEA-aE, THANK. J lUJHAT T6 all 1wOU" and EvjERnTHvnG. ^---OASOOT J V---Tj; _ i. b-A .1 Barney Google and Spark Plug And Now Barney Connects With One Big Pay Day Drawn for ThT I TELLYOO TO 60 AND LAY THE CARPET IN YOt '» : ROOM ? OONE AJH » HAVE ALL ME riHCERt> LEFT.' 1 WOOF; V __J j“ ’ ^ i§24 tv l»«t i F«4Tu«t St^wicr. 1*c. 11 ■ ■ —■ "■- ' 1 JERRY ON THE JOB IS TBAT NICE, MR. FIGSBY? Dr.wn for The Om»h» B~ by Hoban 'm. 1 AJUEU HOjsjE, DOKft. THAT \ /Aft, F\«SBV SNAkSTS" Won To \ EMtHH TVC ^A?Tt 8A«rrr v AWO <3Wt THS SN'HOWiry Bit OF A ttua. fM CoPPoSBD To BE A j 3riftD94urrxoe>'N "lb /aake ^P&OMcrriONsj O'*-*» ■■ Lssw Therefore Laurel traveled from one side of Boston to another pursuing music in one building. French and German in another, art In * third, current events In a fourth, filet lace making In the top loft of a fifth. She chafed beneath tbs tfiooh-rent mu tine. She longed for Mi** Filli brown'S, although she hadn’t l>een very happy there She thought it w.-js the familiar < laserot>ma and fami liar faces she was homesick for, but really it war the co-ordination and consistency of an orgaplied unit. The pupils in Laurel's cissfces in Boston were as varied In »g*. r*,c«, sex and station a* are a chance group gath ered together in the elevator of a public building Night after night Laufil cried soft ly Into her pillow after her mother had fallen safely to sleep. Dsy after day sh* struggled with tears that seemed always to b* just beneath the thin surface of her smiles. Sli» tried to mason with herself. She had been away from Milhamp tori before. Why, almost every sum mrr since she could remember, she had been lonely in some unfamiliar place. Put it had been bearable, she supposed, because it had been only for limited periods. And, besides, It had always been bellboys lo speak to, elevator men and chambermaids. There had always been a game of bil liards to watch, or 4n auction table of women to listen to. Once, on the eldewalk outside the apartment, waiting for her mother to return from a shopping tour, lau rel fell into shy conversation v*lth a dark little girl a few y ears younger than herself who lived In the apart ment below. The possibility- of a friendship with this gentle child filled Laurel with timid happiness for a w hole afternoon. But when she told her mother about the conversation. Stella had exclaimed. ‘'Heavens we can't know those people. La u re I. They're for eigners! So is tit# family above us. I've discovered this place is riddled with them, Mr. Hinckly couldn't have known what ho way talking about! We’ve aimpl^ got to get out sooner or later." • 1 ntll .Stella moxed to Boston, Laur el had preferred a tramp In 11le'eoun try, or a call on Jake, or Tony, or peg legged Eddy, to the movies; or a stolen pilgrimage to the little house that used to be red, where the myster ious old man whom she must never tell was her grandfather lived, to a vaudeville or play. But In her new solitude, where there was no place to go and nowhere to call. Laurel look ed with interest upon tfie diverting Interior of any amusement place. She went to the movies with her mother three times a week regularly. They climbed to gallery seats at Keith's every time tlie bin free changed. On Saturday nights Stella and laurel usually dressed up In *helr be^t clothes, and dined at a fash (enable hotel, ordering the lowest priced entree on the bill dawdling over their bread and butter, as they observed the gay parties about them, and watched the vaners bear in mar velr-us planked steaks and Leach Melbas. It was a bleak and frrlorn sort of existence for both mother and child, and terribly shorn of human contacts. Eut it needn r have beeA quite so bleak and forlorn and ehorn. Stella said. If Laurel hadn't taken such a dislike to Alfred Munn. Ed tried to l>e awfully kind. He called at the apartment before they had been in it a week. He tried to be awfully kind to laurel especially. Eu: the child wouldn t let him. 4. "I can't bear that man, motner." «iie had said as soon as the door had ! red upon him after his first visit. "Don't let him com® again." There was a red spot in the center of each of her checks. "Mervy. mercy. Ixrllie." laughed Stella. 'Lately Lolhe would flare up like a imle firebrand every once In a while over the littlest things! Her sc». probably, Stella coucluded' "Why. what * the matter with Ed?" sh» asked lightly, humoring!; ' He's horrid!" ‘ Horrid? How s he l\Orrid" "He tickled me In the ribs and said T was prett and kissed me "Well, what of that" Tou re only a little girl. t\ by shouldn't he tell you you are pretty, attd kiss ypu" "His lips were wet. and his breath! smelled. Oh. mother?' shuddered Laurel. "Don't let hhn kiss rue again! Don t let him corns here ag^ln 1 > "Now. don't be silly, L4urel« 1 ran • tell Ed Munn not tepcomg here again. It would lie awfujiy rude and bad mannered." "Rut lie s rude, he's $>ad-mannered "Why, I-aurel, boat ran you ta!k *o about a gentlem*! who's trying to do so much for ' "He. Isn't a gentleman.' "He's more gentleman, 1 suers, tl-.an’ that dirt! old cobbler you. like eq. w!k> spits aryd sv.rt-e, and that dago who c#tl« fruit. xPU came oxer s!*erag^.” ^ "Jake iso t dirty only on the out side, and.-T ny 14 not a dag - He; a liceek, and he eom»s iron a place in Clreec* wlyfe 'b» most beautiful tilings In th* world come from Be floes Jak<* and Tony don t kiss me. and Jake .slid Tony don t say horrid things to me about you! ' And what things did Ed ss; about ’ ** Oh, Man! (then and now) ®y Hovm Soom ' i _ jf Just a fevaj \ \ minjutt* mccst J \ OOCLLI-COMC\ ■J. irl 5HUTTA JI MR OA DOOR ) t m ( AN* CHAUC.G / ( MOTTA CHAMCC ) 1 TONV ? ,y > MeesT ooeLLi- y * f i CiJMC A^SAtN J Wr" v soma day y _I ABIE THE AGENT Drawn for The Omaha Bee by H«r*hfield \niong Frtrnd* E^KlWG, Vou Ttofc 'THE IAVT TlME-A^E YoO QOIKX* Tt) t,»V)E \ NEYHE $sz> \1 ou OU)E "how COOV-0 vov?\ / i ****** 1 OVA* VOW foO «s?jsst5t v^jxzzssrjssr: p OWE ME S5° ?*y ]jjiSr ^ ’ "When 30U were out; of the ^rOorn he #ut hia arm around m«, and told tti# h* thought sou \v*ra Pr* t., to ' 'Veil?” ,. ... ‘ h# shouldn't have Mia t^a # « should he? Notno me? The way if ‘••Why not? * f don’t*call that hor rid.” * ‘ Don t you? lieany ■ “Certainly not. Why shoultln t li* say It, If he thought It? ' Laurel stared at her mother, con fused, perplexed. She dldn t know how to answer, how to explain. Sh« hid never liked Ed Munn. but herdle like of him had never swept over (her like thin. It was frightening. sudden hatred of the man was nice a big dense cloud that had rolled upon her unawares and enveloped her com pletely. She had turned toward her mother for help, for comprehension. She had groped for a Steadying hand. Eut no hand had been held out. Suddenly Juiurel turned and buried her face In the pillow on the couch and burst Into violent weeping. Of late many of her emotions, were lit e enveloping clouds—low ^nd worship, as well as hah and scorn. Her pas sion for Mrs. Morrison was big, dense, un-understandable. As she lay with her face buried in the dark of the pil low, she could see great masses of red and purple light-dust, shapeless and conglomerate, rolling and shifting senselessly in the dark behind hpc closed lids. Life was like that. Oh. if only somebody would show her a straight easy little path leading through the c-Onfusion. “Oh, come, corns,, Lollie," exclaimed Stella. "Don't do that way. Of course if you feel so badly afc all that about poor Ed, why—he needn't come. But for the life of me, I don't tee what he's done to y ou.’’ It was the first time for years Stella, had seen Laurel cry like a little girt. It was the last time she ever saw her. After that one outburst. Laurel never again betrayed to her mother her feir of the shifting clouds of the twilight stratum of the dawning of her soul. .Stella was not mistaken in attriiyti intr Laurel's sudden aversion to I to her age, but she soon discovered it was no whim. In fact, Laurel seen ed ho terribly set against * poor E that si-e almost wi • Inclined to i» !ie\e that Stephen must ha'» "p" oned her mind somehow. Why, when Ed invited Laurel and tier mother to go ti the theater with him. and choose their own show, the child t ™ fused absolutely to stir an inch. Fha wouldn't touch a piece of the generous box of candy- he sent them. “Oh,' how can vou bear him?” she remarked quietly (for all the world like Stephen 1 when the found his name written on the card in the envelope tucked utS i neath the showy bow of ribbon. Stella had to tell Ed the truth at last. She hated to give up ait t1 ~ good times lie stor'd ready to shower upon th*m. She didn't mind givim up Ed himself. She aJwaye sot si . of him after a little - hile. anyhow. and she must confee* h* had rt downhill considerably even since last September. He had changed his bus iness ■'gain. Ho was working In son - sort of machine-shop no- and h'c fingernails w»re terribly broken and greasy. CHAPTER XVI! 1. Laurel s.' on the end of the with her f»et swinging over the edg-. A girl about her own age eat on eaci side of her. Their arm.' were throw r lightly around h»r shoulders am here 1 ghtiy around thei-s.- Ail thre. of th“ girls were in white, except fo: their Boutft de Ifonvel colored ew^a' *re—pale, pink, pale j ellow . and faint »st lavgnder. The three girls ma st p-ett- a display n gainst- the gf' Ihlue of tite lake a« a fragment of ram. ie.w. Beneath tlielr twinging fe float'd a flotilla of panoee. the! bright nri and green sidee flashing n the sun. un the pier behind the gi- - was a be,||»ctli»n of boxe« leather e* m cased fl ermos bottiea and jara, aad an. uAi tea baskets Xlie three, girl* were . siting ft’ “tbfc crowd to a:-sSt hi' “The ubOwd" was going on fl picnic to Stag Island today. Laurel was one of ' the crowd."/ - Latur*! w as IV . Mrs old row, a 1 this Was the first tin* In all he- life xherhad eser been ore of * crowd Tide thrilling experience had latte < ft. It would be three weeks fhe da. after tomorrow since Laurel and her mother had arrived at the unexpected paradise. Laurel was keenjy conscious of ti * careless amis about her shoulders tut she didn't show it. Laurel could cor real joy and pride she discovered, , quite as successfully as disappoint ment and chagrin, h'he was keenly conscious. too. 0T tbe gir’. she had s’ ways teen before on occasions of th sort. she iiad strolled by just such liitio ate little groups as she now ir., aouiously found lierself one ..f, she and lier mother taking in what detai' of exciting preparations as they cou! In a glance or two. or* covert back ward look. laurel lelfc Sorrier ft that girl on this happy morning, site thought, than she ever had befi^e. if PVlinnftl tn Hftitilij Bff 1.230 Engineers V. Iowa Resident}! ProftMiolili Builder* and l aud Surveter? Now 1 » i>e* ««$•}.' la.. 5* ' 'll.—t i - exe at iVe Of lew* 1”<\.V rat public Ut« .v^t.a-1 «'f the state bos of engineering esaml.'-era for the hear ending June. 1913. The report *bnwe that the eta:* now h*e 1 iSO *cti\e resident eng - neere, d*\id*d Into two cUssej— P— f»ss)cu»l eng.neers gr.d l»-d suf'1 or*. The prv>f.s*ionel ergineers rl*«» include* etrurtuml engineer*, el* trice I »nd sanitary engineer* Prof**-lop* I eng1 tieering 'B to** has been regulates! by !a\l ».r.<* 19 ? and the board of examiner* ’ ns been In exlat*ni • n.iu'P thAt ti’rf Tha pretent board is head#! ?s*!h l>#An of, GU wood, In cln f* v i‘ » branch of draln*f# and Mr 4 veyiug; I*. M Martin of cm n d chairman And lep* esonta ' * ' the rational coyncll. In chavs * f highway ami railway tntflnoer s P Fleming of Iowa City. In . f elect r al and mocha k G * nearing. c. S. Nicholi of Vi»«. charge of immiclpal and s. lit* > 0 gingering. And AUm ' Glendale. Cal.. who until h “ removal front the »tate, wi» ■ c * s* of utroctur*) engineering \»aa- Man tin and I/eTan have bee of th« board tinea i?» crA.v. Vorrijju V volianpr* >lump Nee \crk. Jan ll .'onttnup' oonxeraion of French fran * into d lar hilta in France, F.nglaml And Switaerland influenced Another drop in franca in the local foreign e ^ change maiket to»!*> . f .anew we r- * Quoted at I M cent a a new low r * for All Unit, ami o«mbv i'C with terdnjCa low iwint of 4 % * • Peniand Merhng opened a* c » duplicating Its low \ ♦ of *•!*' day.