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THE LA GftANDfi EVENING OBSEftVEB, LA GRANDE, OREGON
Holiday, May 7,1945
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: tJ7E got dinner ready the next
Sunday, hoping for a miracle.
, No one had come at n ociock,
At 1. the people in the White
Steamer called up from a farm
I house near a sign that announced
I tho new restriction, and Benjamin
went for them with the buck'
! board. The dinner was good, and
; they ate as heartily as ever, but
; we knew, somehow, that they
would not be back again,
' My father called up on Monday.
J Benjamin was to meet him that
mgnc oi we junction, ne naa a
man with him, a man who was
coming to stay.
"It must be a summer boarder,"
my mother said, more cheerful
than she had heen since the Town
' Meeting. "Be sure you don't tell
your father what's gone on," she
warned us,
It was dark when they came.
we heard tne wheels on th
gravel, then my father's voice.
"Where is everybody?" He sound
ed in high spirits.
We all ran out to meet him,
"Remember, not a word," my
.mother said.
- My father kissed us all. Then
he turned to the man standing
beside him. "Mr. Clayton Cut
ter, our new clerk," he said, look
ing quite proud of himself.
We simply stared. A new clerk
when only that day my mother
had been wondering if we could
possibly manage without Ada,
Mr. Cutter bowed, and we all
filed quietly into the house.
"How did you find Cousin Vic
torio?" my mother asked in a po
me voice on tne way,
"As usual," my father answered
shortly. He had plainly expected
quite a different welcome.
. No one spoke as we crossed the
piazza.
"Show Mr. Cutter his room,
Susan," my mother said when we
were inside.
TVTO. 10 was tho room wo hod
j. i
prepared. ,It was on the buck
.comer of tho second floor, over
looking the boy. It was a good
room, ordinarily reserved for
transients.
Mr. Cutter looked more like a
transient than a clerk. He was
short, but erect, with a bearing
that suggested the military. He
had thick, lively gray hair, a trim
mustache, and a Vandyke beard,
the only one we had ever seen
outside of a portrait.
"This way, sir," Sue said. We
could see she was awed.
"What's the matter?" my father
began as soon as they were out of
hearing. He was hurt and baffled
and a little annoyed.
My mother had to tell him the
whole story.
He took It hard. "If I had only
been here myself," he said, groan
ing, "it would never have hap
pened."
My mother always let him keep
his vanities. "The first thing to
do is to send this man back," she
told him. "We can give him a
week s pay."
My father hesitated. "All he
wants is his board," he finally
said.
"His board," my mother echoed.
"That's all."
"Where in the world did you
get a man for that?"
"That's oil he wants," my fa
ther assured her.
My mother did not notice the
evasion then. "Well, thnt's dif
ferent," she suld. "Ho looks pre
sentublo. We can try him out,
anyway."
IVTH- CUTTER was more than
prosentublo. Ho was Im
pressive. Indeed, if it hadn't
been for his hands, ho mleht
have seemed forbidding. They
were very white, very soft, and
very graceful. Ho moved them
from the wrist with gestures so
eloquent that he hardly needed
to speak nt all. A finuer to the
Hps when someone was telephon
ing. A backward gesture toward
an open door. A holf-bockoning,
half-welcoming sweep toward the
register. A wide flourish In the
direction of the ditiing room. One
finger for the first floor. .Two
for the second. ... At only one
time was he really voluble; That
was when he yawned. Then he
tapped his lips gently with his
fingers and emitted a loud "HI
HO HUM." i , .
At first he made quite a hit In
the -office. He gave it a real tone.
Even the summer people were
Impressed. His clothes were al
ways neat, his hair well brushed,
and his hands and nails Immacu
late. ... ., ,
He made quite a hit with Ada,
too. Here at last was the kind
of man she had dreamed of. Dis
tinctive, courtly, alone in the
world. She gave him a clean
napkin every day and always
kept a vase of flowers on his ta
ble. Sometimes, when he wasn't
there to see her, she slipped Into
the office with little lunches. A
deviled ham sandwich, maybe, or
a molasses doughnut, or a glass of
buttermilk, which he fancied.
This irritated Mrs. Guptill.
Food cost money. - Ada wasn't
paid three dollars a week to throw
it away. ii. . . .
If Mr. Cutter had been a work
, she might have overlooked
the lunches. But he wasn't it
turned out a worker at anything.
For hours at a time he would sit
at the desk gazing at his hands
or idly drawing circles on sheets
of paper. Oftou ihe dozed in the
afternoon, cupping his face in his
hands so that his beard hung
down like a cornucopia. The tele
phono might ring two or three
times before ho stirred himself to,
answer it:
We girls were very husy-i-dust-
Ing, wiping dishes, setting tables,
Berrying and his idleness anr
noyed us, too. . ...
"Mr. Cutter ought to do that,"
we often complained when my
mother suggested some' additional
chore. "He's got plenty of time."
"Now, now," she would say.
That meant "Enough from you."
But It provoked her a little,
too, to come in and find him
sleeping. "Of course," she said,
if we were paying him any
thing. . . ." I
(To Be Continued)
Our Boarding House
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Summer Gloves
Washington
Merry-Go-Round
(Continued from Page 2)
By MRS. ANNE CABOT
They are crocheted in a widely
spaced knot stitch and they look
like a million dollars! Do them
in white, crochet the separate
flowers in dusty pink, blue and
pale yellow. You will need just
three 75-yard balls of tutting cot
Ion to moke a puir ot summer
Roves which will be absolutely
perfect with your summer print
and evening date frocks.
To obtain complete crocheting
instructions with actual size de
tail sketch of the knot stitch used
in the Summer Gloves (Pattern
No. 5882) send 15 cents in COIN,
plus 1 cent postage, YOU It
Eden was in (he league assembly
at the time. . . . Despite their dia
metrically opposite backgrounds,
Eden is the Britisher who Molotov
knows and likes best. In 11141 it
was Eden who snt in the Kremlin
with tho Germans only .'18 miles
away and signed the 20-year pact
between England and Kussia. . . .
That was one of Eden's three trips
to Moscow one in 1!)35 to dis
cuss trade relations, tho 1!)41 try
lo sign the 20-year alliance, and
the trip to sign a pact with Cor
dell Hull in 11143. He also went to
Yalta with Churchill.
Though put in the shade by the
spectacular figures of Eden and
Molotov, San Francisco is studded
with notable world statesmen.
One is Belgian Foreign Ministor
Henri Spunk, jailed for two years
by the Germans in the last war,
and imprisoned by Franco and
Petain while u refugee in this
war. . . . Spaak is one of Bel
gium's foremost socialists, his
mother having been a strong so
cialist and Belgium's only woman
senator. . . . The Uelgium dele
gation to San Francisco represents
all walks of political life, includ
ing an active member of the com
munist party, Dr. Albert Mar
teaux, tlie minister of public
health. He is also a physician and
was imprisoned ten months in
Spain by Franco. . . . Another Bel
gian delegate, Victor Delevelye,
gave up his law practice to fight
tile fascists and is originator of
tile "V for Victory" slogan.
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6-14 yr.
By SUE BURNETT
Vacation time calls for sturdy
play dollies for the young set.
She'll find lots of uses for this
brightly colored cotton three piece
play suit. 1
Pattern No. 8KH3 is designed for
sizes , 8. 10. 12 and 14 years. Sire
8. skirt, requires l's yards of 35
or 3n-inch fabric; blouse, lH
yards; shorts, l'ii yards.
For this pattern, send 20 cents,
in COINS, your name, address,
size desired, and the PATTERN
' NUMBER to Sue Burnett, La
Grande Evening Observe, 709
Mission St., San Francisco, Calif.
Readv now tho Spring issue
of FASHION. Just 15 cents. A
complete guide in planning ward
robe needs for all the family.
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Water turned off, May 5:
P. V. Carman. 1502 Second St.
Water turned on;
Mclvin Westi-nskow, GO" Fourth
St.
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a scolding woman.
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