anaheim-gazette 1926-08-05

Mr. and Mrs. Sallie being the Confessions of a new wife... by Gladys Baker Illustrated by Paul Robinson. Copyright 1926 by Publishers Autocaster Services Curtiss Is Discussed "What do you mean, Ellie, and how on earth did you know about Curtiss and Letitia Evans?" I demanded. "A little bird told me." "Please be serious," I pleaded, "this is a matter of my life's happiness and here you are joking." Ellie sat up, in what was for her a dignified position, and Any woman, provided she is reasonably attractive, and sets her mind to it, can get any man, and any wife who holds her husband might just as well put it down to luck. lapsed back into the more serious mood in which she had made her first announcement. "Listen, Sallie, I hadn’t meant to spill the fact that I was on to Curtiss’ misdemeanor, but I couldn’t sit back and watch something like that put over my best friend and act like a dumb-bell about it." "I’ve known all summer that they were seeing each other, but I had no idea anyone else had noticed. Do you reckon——" "No, I don’t think the whole town is on to it, yet," Ellie interrupted, "but of course your own set is bound to sit up and find interesting gossip in such a flagrant disregard of the conventions. It’s even gotten to Jacksonville, because Marjorie Chenworth wrote me about it. She told me to make you come up here and get away from the whole situation." "You don’t think that?——” I couldn’t go on. "That your paragon of saintly virtue is actually side-stepping?" I ignored her slang and sarcasm and nodded. "Well, of course I don’t know how far he’s fallen for the wiles of this Letitia Evans, but I do know this, Sallie, any woman, provided she is reasonably attractive, and sets her mind to it, can get any man, and any wife who holds her husband might just as well put it down to luck and nothing short of it, that ‘the other woman’ has failed to make her appearance with her flattering compliments and fresh enthusiasm. Why, I bet she even laughs at his old stories," she concluded. "I see what you mean, but I can’t think that Curtiss has gone very far in this thing, Ellie. I feel that it’s just an entanglement with this Evans girl that he stepped into before he realized her true nature, and I believe even now he’s trying to get out of it with the least harm and scandal." Ellie sniffed. "It must take a whale of a lot of love to have that much confidence in someone who has treated you like Curtiss. I might as well tell you all your friends are perfectly indignant. Marj, for instance, wrote me that I should insist on your coming up here and getting away from an ugly situation. She adores you and knows what a sacrifice you've made already for Curtiss by giving "I see what you mean, but I can't think that Curtiss has gone very far in this thing, Ellie. I feel that it's just an entanglement with this Evans girl that he stepped into before he realized her true nature, and I believe even now he's trying to get out of it with the least harm and scandal." Ellie sniffed. "It must take a whale of a lot of love to have that much confidence in someone who has treated you like Curtiss. I might as well tell you all your friends are perfectly indignant. Marj, for instance, wrote me that I should insist on your coming up here and getting away from an ugly situation. She adores you and knows what a sacrifice you've made already for Curtiss by giving up all the luxuries you've been accustomed to and economizing ever since you've been married. What does he do to show his appreciation? Have an affair with a rude little flapper!" "I don't think it's exactly that," I defended. "It has all the ear-marks, ma cherie." "Anyway," I continued, "I couldn't have done anything but help Curtiss, you see that really was my duty and besides—I loved him so that it made everything easy." It had not been easy and I realized the moment that I had said it that I was beginning to tell a string of petty lies to protect Curtiss and recognized it for a primitive emotion, indulged in, no doubt, by the cave woman in order to make "her man" appear a hero. My contention with him is that he is deplorably lacking in appreciation of you, Sallie. Why you could have married any one of a dozen splendid catches and you threw them all over for Curtiss." "Don't forget in all fairness to him, Ellie, that he has some very wonderful qualities and this is the only thing that has come up to keep us from being perfectly happy." "I won't admit his perfection!" she declared, fiercely, "he's always struck me as being exceedingly narrow-minded." I knew then at that very moment that Ellie had enlisted on the side against Curtiss and any attempt to make her change her viewpoint was useless. "That's just why I married him," I contended, "a sort of balance-wheel for my own impulsive enthusiasm. I was hopelessly frivolous, Ellie, and you know it, and Curtiss certainly has made me over." "That’s just why I think he's so inconsistent. Why doesn’t he, himself, put some of his lofty ideals into practice? I'll have nothing good to say for him, Sallie, and if I were you, I'd put in for a divorce from him tomorrow." I winced at the word. "Oh, no, no, it hasn't come to anything like that! Why, I'd have no further purpose in living without Curtiss. You see you've misjudged him because you don't know Lettia Evans. She's so persistent that he can't get out of her clutches." "Just the same, you know how I feel about it," she answered. "I'm delighted of course that you're here, Sallie, and I hope you'll stay long enough to see the thing as others do who are not blinded by a sort of hero-worship." "Ellie, you sound so cynical and hard-hearted. The world has surely dealt kindly with you, why should you be so bitter?" I saw that I could not change her opinion of Curtiss and decided temporarily to drop the subject. "I'm not really. It's just that I should have married some poor unsuspecting man years ago before I had my illusions shattered. Battling around the world alone while my jazz-mad parents went their own way, in truly modern fashion, has made me exchange my sense of sentiment for a sense of humor." "You've never really been in love?" I questioned. "It seems to me that I've never been anything else," she answered flippantly, "but fortunately for me it's usually with a different person!" "Seriously, though, Sallie-Alley, Plost my faith in men when I found out that Warren Fisher was a scoundrel. I really had undying faith in him—don't you remember?" "But, Ellie, you knew too, that he..." was married. You had no right to his affection." "Yes, but what I didn't know was that a man who would be untrue to his wife would be faithless to any other promise." "Never mind. You'll get married some day and I know it. I never have believed you were indifferent to all the sweet, lovely things of life, Ellie, and I know perfectly well that there are times when you'd trade all your suitors, and popularity and beautiful clothes for a home and someone who really loved you." For a moment I thought I saw a glint of a tear tremble on her eyelash, and then in a flash she was up from the divan upon which she had been resting and was playing a new dance record. In spite of her nonchalant gesture, I felt that I had treaded on sacred ground—a sanctuary hidden away beneath the jaunty, debonair and heedless creature that the world thought was Ellie Mitchell. The door burst open and a girl darted through the room as if she were totally oblivious of our presence. "Carmen!" announced Ellie, tossing her head in the direction in which she had so swiftly departed. "She'll be back in a minute. She really doesn't mean to be indifferent. She's probably forgotten something and wants to get it while she remembers." She was right. In a moment the girl with whom Ellie shared the apartment returned and spoke in all friendliness to both of us. "Dashed back to grab an evening dress. Am going to be one in a mob-scene in the movies. But they really want another girl too for a right prominent part and Jiminy! Sallie! The director showed me a picture of the type they wanted and you're her very image. Come along. It'll be a lark for us both and, you never can tell, you might get to be a headliner!" I laughed and declared that I had no such ambition or talent and, strange as I may seem, I had never particularly wanted to be a movie queen or an actress. "Go on, Sallie," urged Ellie. "I have to struggle down to the studio to take an art lesson a little later, and left Lettuce and Prunes Growing Popular Large Quantities From California Coming in Favor A real change is taking place in the diet of the American people, a report from the department of agriculture at Washington reveals. "America rapidly is becoming a nation of salad eaters," the department announces. This country also is taking prunes with a new rush. "Consumption of lettuce, the nation's salad crop, has increased greatly in the last 10 years," the department states. "Lettuce shipments last season were six times those reported in 1916." "A real change in the American diet is responsible for the growing importance of this leading salad crop." Car lot shipments of lettuce have increased from 4700 to more than 30,000 since 1916, and the value of the total crop is now around $20,000,000. California leads in production, with New York and Florida second and third. California produces more than 7,000,000 crates annually. New York nearly 2,200,000 and Florida a fraction less. An increase of 1300 tons of dried prunes was consumed during 1925, the department also reported. The total production of dried prunes was 172,900 tons in 1925, compared with 171,300 in 1924. California not only is the big lettuce state, but also the big prune state. She led with 145,000 tons of the dried fruit. Idaho was second, with 15,000 tons. REGISTRATION COMPLETE Registration in Orange county for the primary election, August 31, closed Saturday evening with approximately 40,000 votes on the books, according to County Clerk J. M. Backs. The last minute rush for the books was swelled to a great extent by persons who had New Train Service On Union Pacific The Union Pacific system will establish improved, expedited and increased train service between Los Angeles, Chicago and the east on November 14 next, according to announcement made today by R. B. Robertson, assistant traffic manager. The famous Los Angeles Limited will be made a de luxe train, with entirely new equipment from headlight to observation platform and will be operated on a 63-hour schedule, thus saving practically an entire business day between Los Angeles, Chicago and the east in both directions. This train will carry an excess fare of $10 between Los Angeles and Chicago. The Gold Coast Limited, an additional new train, also composed entirely of standard sleeping car equipment with dining and observation car, will be operated on a 68-hour schedule between Los Angeles and Chicago. This train will carry only all-steel cars of the latest design. The popular Continental Limited will continue to carry standard and tourist sleepers and chair cars through between Los Angeles and Chicago and intermediate points, but will be operated on a much quickened schedule, making the run between the two cities in 68 hours flat. The present through service between Los Angeles and Denver, Kansas City, St. Louis, Omaha, St. Paul and Minneapolis will be continued. This action of the Union Pacific system, said Mr. Robertson, is taken in response to the demand of the traveling public for faster and better train service between Los Angeles and the east. I am sure that it will be appreciated by business-men, the theatre and moving picture fraternities, and the rapidly increasing tide of tourists who visit our state each year. Complete information regarding schedules of all trains will be given out in the near future. 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