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There are things which happen which are stranger than fiction. Our pictures shows, left to right, President Coolidge at his new hobby, crooning, at $1, a word; Alfalfa Bill Murray is below, starting out on hands and knees to puch a peanut to Washington. This method is calculated to get him there by 1933. The new picture, at the top, shows Mr. Andraw Mellon, a tattered figure in the New York breadline. Below are two famous German personalities with all their quarrels patchad up, and on the extreme right, la the hot goipelior harasif on an aquaplane tour. By this time you may have suspected the there is something wrong with these pictures. They were In fact, compounded as an April Fool Joke. Below are some others.
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Henry Ford at work on his much-discussed new "V-8" engine. The new power plant, built in two banks of four cylinders each, has a rating of 30 horsepower, cylinder blocks and crankcaso cast in one unit, aluminum sily pistons, an intake manifold which pro heals the gai before it is delivered to the cylinders, and pressure lubrication. This picture, at least, in genuine.
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Beautiful Ella omaller,
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ankgirl *
Barclay's Department Store. works sights an in
A dance half hot, he live with her nother, Molly Belter, her elder aller, here."
Myrn, and her baby brother, Mike.
At the dance hall she meets and falls in
Elizabeth Bowen, a debutante.
Again the girl hesitated.
A stirring action picture of Gandhi, in training for the Olympic Games Together with all thron sheets in the wind. Below Al Smith his presented his famous brown Derby to President Hoover, and
the last photo shows Mr. John D. Rockefeller, who says that the world depression has made him fael
very jumpy.
and
she went to sleep dreaming times she know. At luncheon fed her to the studio, one of the dreams of Larry. She was sce- with him her thoughts would stray free Mondays that came all too Ing a different side of him these to Larry.
seldom. It was insufferably hot She would wonder what he was even with the studio skylight wide days, was learning that he could work as well as play at high ten-jdoing, where he was, what he was open and all the casement win- lights and things. Sometimes if
of curtains you're not too tired we could drop sion. She loved this different anying in these hours he spent dows denuded
Then she would swung out into the airless, starry there after you're through alde of him, loved the inexhausti-away from her.
ble enthusiasm he exhibited for start with a sudden realization night. At about 8 o'clock Bert colour, for paint, for canvas, for that she had heard not one word protested ho could bear no more real labour,
of what Steven had been saying. (and dragged Myra out to a nigh- love with handeume Larry Harrowaste, an "I don't want to sound like a
Things at home. Anancially Later she learne Larry is engaged to prude," she said frankly, "but I'm speaking, were going much better honest with her, she knew would turning for Ellen at 10, the hour. Larry, even if he had been more bourhood movie. They were re- dieven Barclay. 87 and owner of Harclay's, afraid I couldn't do that."
the in-still remain one of those suitors the posing invariably was ended. is in love with Ellen. Without the Kirl's Seeing he was puzzled, she went since she had received knowledge her mother Invites him to dinner on, her clear, candid eyes on his.creased salary at the store but who can never be depended on. Larry worked for some time furious, but when Barclay Arties are "My mother wouldn't hear of such the additional money from Ho blew hot and blew cold; laugh- after they left, absorbedly mixing compelled to be friendly. That night he a thing-and not because
Dreaminnd wan still necessary. ing a gale one minute and quar- his colours and absently wiping his Gossip circulates at the store and Ellen doesn't like you, either. It's be-Not for much longer Ellen hoped, relling fiercely over nothing the brush on his faded smock, stand- saka to be transferred to another depart cause she's old-fashioned, I guess, over the continuous companion-rels he generally stalked away ting at the canvas and
Melly, fretful and distressed next. After those spirited quar-ing off to observe an effect, squin- er NL an increased aiary. She refuses to fund I'm old-fashioned, too. lunch with Larry because of her new bouldn't go to your studio at night ship with Larry and not to be without a word. Ellen would cry Ellen almost as though And they quarrel. He comes to Dreamian without a chaperon. I wouldn't consoled by the fact that Ellen herself to sleep, convinced she never seen her before.
feel right about it.
was seeing a great deal of Steven would never see him again. The he flung down his brush, annouac. "It would be all right on Mon-at the store, had grown stangely next night he would turn up at ed that it was too hot for any- tempor- Dreamland, unabashed and unre-thing except suicide, and banged Ellen had never thought of Larry days and times like that though. apathetic. She seemed in connexion with anything so Myra could come then, too," she spend money before it wility to nontent, the cause of the quarrel off downstairs for ginger ale.
was earn- and the quarrel itself forgotten. prosaic as work. To her he went added,
burrowing money for the ocension. Ellen la
ask her i marry him. She refuses.
ment. Barclay makes her an Resialant bay-
That night to apologize,
CHAPTER XXII
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SHE was graceful...the rhythm of her
movements was delightful to watch. Bur as a partner-
Well, men did not come back for a second dance. They chose some girl with less grace perhaps, but whose presence was more acceptable—and whose person more immaculate.
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then at he had But at 9
with the gayety, the HIghtness and "You do nee, don't you?" aheed. Nevertheless Ellen had often Oh, it was maddening never to. Ellen, left alone in the studio, the feeling of a tight-wire walk- know whore one stood. thought wandered about marvelling na ahe laughter in the world. She knew asked appealingly.
Sho know, did Ellon, how little Ellen as thousands of other so often did at the contradictions he was an artist but when she had "I never saw a girl like you,"er.
girls have thought.
in the man. The studio was bare Icused him for details of his, wk Larry said wonderingly. You easily a budget can bo upset.
There were other things that! he only told her lightly that he don't drink. You don't smoke.
and plain, so obviously the room She had some times the strange of a workman that it seemed In-
priaed
came to Dreamland to ask if she would have worn if she's had the portunities, even though she could she was losing Molly, losing Myra go well.
feel that he and she were coming and Httle Mike, losing touch
"
was not an over-zealous artist. And here you are insisting that gave her the feeling of a tight
So she was considerably sur-you have a chaperon while I paint wire walker. For one thing even feeling that in this double, or, credible Larry could have chosen few days later when he you in a gown Queen Victoria though she gave him countless op- rather, triple life she was leading it, incredible that he fitted there She was cramped and tired would pose for him. A special figure for it." show-the Shane Show he ex-The light note went out of his closer and closer to some inc-it- with her home as she was certainly from the continuous strain of pos- plained-was to be held in six voice. He pursued the subject ablo climax.
Larry failed to any losing touch with her duties at ing but down, at the dusty grand engagement.the store. She knew that Loreno piano which commanded one cor months. If he could get one of the with a kind of reluctant and un-one word about his
in The name of Elizabeth Bowes, the Elcott was disappointed her ner, pushed back the top and at- prizes for portraits his reputation willing admiration:
was fitting though nothing had been said. tempted to remember enough of would be made. Ellen's Arst "You're a queer little Puritan, gay debutante who impulso was to refuse him. She Ellen, but I'm not sure I don't ad-over Europe before returning for She knew all these things and yet her childhood instruction to pick out a simple melody. The in- was too busy. Surely ho could get mire you for it. Girls nowadays her autumn wedding, had never could not feel regretful,
thom. Larry’s very contradictions strument was badly out of tune someone better for a portrait, a are too free and easy-the kind 1 boen mentioned between society woman perhups or an seem to know, anyhow. They've Even as the fall more and more delight; the burning, feverish and her amateurish efforts were actress, someone well known. But tossed away a lot trying to grab helplessly in love with Larry, Ellen love she felt for him was an an-ludicrous, She was giggling at
unfairly awer to her wild, young prayers the discordancy when he persisted. It would take only off the sort of
that could not forget how
of the year before. Nothing mab-| (Continued on Page 10.) such a little time he pleaded. If doesn't seem to make them happy he was treating her.
freedom
she couldn't or wouldn't pose, then when they got it. It seema Billy She was attempting to crowd tered when she was with him ex- ho simply would not enter the com-thing to any, but I'm going to say too much action, too much excite-cept that she would please him. petition. Ellen hesitated, torn be-it. You're n wise little girl, ment, too many emotions into 24 Noting mattered except that here was another evening, an evening hours, tween prudence and desire. At Eilon." last, against her botter judgment, He caught his breath and laugh- She was always swinging back when she might learn where she was always. she agreed to do as he wished.
ed a confused, uncertain laugh, and forth from Steven to Larry. On stood with him. She Ah, you're a darling to say you It wasn't much. But Ellen the one side was common sense straining toward that issue. Al- will," he exclaimed in rollef and troasured those words.
and on the other was her own ways he was oluding it.
Then came hoart. That she had deeply and
an August night satisfaction. "I won't take much
Often during the next two weeks untutontionally hurt Steven many when Bort and Myra accompani-
of your time. My studio has night|
the door
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