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XIX .
tARIY Iri April, we. stjlj owed
the tank $180; , Our business
had bean picking, up witti spring,
but Uie money hod gone, out as
fast as It had come In. The. roof
had to be repaired. : The tank
had to- hove a. new lining. 'We
had all stopped talking about go
ing home, ...v.
My futhor worked very hard
arid even sent out monthly , bll'i.
My mother's smile grew more and
mof-e determined Though' they
were very polite and very kind to
ech other,' we sensed for the first
time In our lives, a barrier be
tween therfl,
: TJhat barrier concerned Mr. Cut
ter. Right after my mother had
fouhd the oil stove empty, her at
titude toward him ' h,ad changed
visibly. She became quite sharp.
"Srhe spittoons, Mr. Cutter.
You've forgotten to clean them."
"These chairs look very dutty,"
' '.'The telephone! Didn't you
hear It?" ' . .' ;-'. ,'
When there was pdmplhtf to be
done, she herself went to get him.
What was more, she. stayed right
In the kitchen wh"o, With' each
hand wrapped in a handkerchief,
be Swayed listlessly backward and
forward, hardly moving the han
dle. . :
: One day she noticed that th
Inkwell had disappeared from the
desk In the office. ' At first she
thought that one bf us girls had,
taken it and neglected' to put it
back.
We hadn't. We couldn't Im
agine. We would, look.
We searched everywhere,
"A thing like that hasn't Just
dropped from sight," she said,
when we made our report, ;
"The paperweight did, Mama,"
I reminded her.
She began to' look, too. We
followed her from place to place.
"'Tlsn't there." . . . '"Tisn't
A Pretty Apron!
By MRS. ANNE CABOT
It's a sort of glorified npron
enn't you just sec It mode In
white muslin with the uppliqucd
tulips and U'nves done in pale
pink and rose-pink cross-burred
muslin?- And of course It will
make a nice kitchen upron If you
do it in unbleached muslin and
use bright scraps of ginghum or
checked materials for the tulips.
A good kitchen shower gift, inci
dentally! To obtain complete apron and
applique puttern for the tulip ap
ron (pattern No. 5BDG) sizes small,
medium nnd large, send 15 cents
in coin, plus 1 cent postage, your
Crooner's Wife
HORIZONTAL
1 Pictured
former film
actress,
63 Compass point
54 Brown bread
by heal
55 mtcrsect
VERTICAL
1 Challenges
2 Olven to irony
3 That one
4 Division of ,
geological
time
5 Shake sperean
king
6 Doves' calls
7 Hastened
8 Either
8 Prohibited
10 Warble
15 Fork prong
11 Area measure
12 Pedal digit '
13 Boat paddla
14 Army order
(b.)
1 5 Decoy ,
17 Country
20 Conclude I
21 Wife of
Geraint in ,
Arthurian
legend
23 Rodents
4 Sea engle , .
25 Tendon 1
27 Measure
28 Bay window
29 Goddess
31 Wandered
133 Interest (ab.)
;S4 Greek letter
:3SOne who
j scatters
137 Heating
I devices
140 Carries (coll.)
41 Caterpillar
I ' hairs
43 Flower
i44 "Drunkards
45 Diminutive
' uf Benjamin
48 Tvfctnl fastener
48 Symbol for
erbium
50 Within .
51 From y Jv
there." At the end. of 20 mln.
ufes she was ready to give up.
'"Never mind,". (he said shortly.
"There's a bottle of Ink up In the
parlor. Get that."
A ITER that she gave up prod
V ding Mr. Cutter and herself
took over the work of the office,
sweeping, dusting, ' winding . the
clock. No matter .where she was
When she heard it. she came run-
Slng to. onswer ' the telophone.
nee my father found her empty
ing spittoons. He looked miser
able, but. he didn't say anything.
tie was just as Kind to Mr. cut
ter. Just as considerate,
Mr. Cutter's naps lengthened.
His yawns became more frequent.
Hi-Hp-Hum Hl-Ho-Hummf Some
times, ooming out of a clear sky,
they sounded fierce and fright
ening, ' Now that ho one reminded
him, ho never did a bit of pump
ing. ' ' . ' '',
W4 could feel the barrier be
tween my father and my mother
rising nigner ana nigner,
Things were building up In the
kitchen, too, Mrs. GupUH com
plained constantly about Ada.
"Some days that ktlrl don't even
art'llkely," she declared. "She's
about as much good as a last
year's crow's nesfc" She fussed,
too. about the stove. Benjamin
hadn't been able to change It, for
he was away all day, hauling
gravel, for the "rood crew. Or.ce
In a while She would claim that
she could catch' the odor of kero
sene,
' My mother never acknowledged
this odor. All hpuses smelled of
kerosene, she) said, and would
smell of It, too, just as long as
there were lamps, But every now
and then W w6uld . catch her
sniffing, Two or three times we
came upon her in unexpected
places.
1 "What are you doing, Mama?"
; "Oh, Just looking for some
thing." We might have been more curi
ous had not a really exciting
event lain In the offing.
City News
In Brief
Rev. Mark A. Tulney left to
day for Dnyville, where he is to
deliver the commencement ad
dress ut the high school, and to
morrow conduct a mission to
teachers. He will return Friday.
J, H. Peare, rullroad watch In
spector, is up the branch line to
duy on an official Inspection trip.
Mrs. L. C. Lloyd of Lostine wus
in La Grande today.
Mis. Lucille Medina of Canyon
City was In the city today on
business. '
, C. C, Neill of Joplln, Mo., was
arrested last evening by city po
lice on charges of drunkenness
And vagrancy. Carl C. Farlow of
Monterey, Calif., for begging,
Steven H. Cnsmay, transient, on
a churgo of drunkenness.
Official Records
Water turned off, May 15:
Homer Garrett, 811 Division
Street; second hand store, 305
Fir street! C. Jermulouskc, 1410
Washington avenue; John Holt,
10(18. X avenue. .
Water turned on:
Mrs. L. D. Huston, 1012 Second
street; John Strocker, 811 Divi
sion street; H. S. Overpeck, 104
Greenwood avenue. ,
AUTOMOTIVE HINT
New brake linings sometimes
have a tendency to grab. This
can be eliminated by driving the
car for a block or two witlt the
brakes applied.
name, address and the pattern
number to Anne Cubot, La
Grande Evening Observer, 70S)
Mission St., Sun Francisco, Calif.
Antmrr to rrvvlnuti I'mif
18 Light knock
19 Roman rood
20 Great Lake
22 Ridicules
24 Type of fur
(pl.)
26 Travels
28 Hops' kilns
38Solntc (ab.)
32 Open (poet.)
39 Bullfighter
36 Suffix
38 On top
39 Type of cloth
(pl.)
40 Chinese
dependency
42 Slaves
46 Emmet
47 Slnbod'l bird
50 She the
wife of Blng
Crosby
52 France (ab.)
10
an
Tl'J'(
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glNC? the beginning of the 7ear
the' ! newspapers had been
printing stories ; about corns'
which would Appear In May.- '.
As the time apprpached, the pa
pers begone, to remjnd .. us that
comets had , of ten portended mo
mentous things. A comet had ap
peared after the death of Caesar.
One . had : sailed. . languid and
heavy, through the skies before
the London Plague; another, swift
and furious, before the Oreat Fire.
This comet was Halley's, king of
them all.' It had whirled through
the heavens before the birth . of
Christ. . It had hung suspended
pver ' Rome before the death of
Agrlppa. It had flamed over the
Battle cf Chalons, where Attlla;
the Hun, bowed down before the
Roman Actius. It had lighted the
battlefield of Hastings. Now, on
its twenty-eighth appearance, it
would make a transit across the
very face of the sun. 1
' The superstitious began to npeji
ulatfc as to what We might hove
in store. The ciuntry was at
peace. We1 had no princes to de-
throne, no tyrants to vanquish
Perhaps a great pestilence, some
one suggested. ' ("What kind
might it .e?" they asked my ta-
ther. "Weak-mindedness," he told
them tersely.) Perhaps it was in
tended only as a warning, some
said. . A warning against men who
were trying to fly in machines.
Or. against women, who were de
manding a right to vote. Some
thought it might be a warning
against hobble skirts and bloom
ers. , .
' The magazines, too, had a lot
of comet talk. The scientific ones
told us that Halley's cycle was
approximately 75 years. It would
be visible to the naked eye around
May loth in the east, two hours
befpre sunrise. . We could see it
first at night on May 18th, when
It would pass the sun's dlski
Muntey'f assured us that there
was not one chance In 8 million
that any one of us would live to
see this happen again. Even
Methuselah, the Independent re
minded us, had never witnessed
what we would witness.
We girls could hr.rdly wait until
May.
(To Be Continued)'
Summer Outfit
By SUE BURNETT
The young daughter of an old
schoolmate looked adorable play
ing in a set like this. Eusy .is
anything to make this week's
ABC special.
Pattern No. 88C0 is designed
for sizes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 years.
Size 2, dress requires Hi yards
of 35 or 39 inch material; pant
ies, "ft yard: bonnet, Ms yard.
For this pattern, send 20 cents,
in coins, your name, address,
size desired nnd the pattern num
ber to Sue Burnett, La Grande
Evening Observer, 703 Mission
St., Sun Francisco, Calif.
Ready now the spring issue of
Fashion. Just 15 cents. A com
plete guide In planning wardrobe
needs for all the family.
GAVE HIS WIVES AWAY
Mn Tl-T'nl, former military
governor of Kiishgiir, China, re
warded his soldiers for distin
guished service by presenting
'.hem with wives from his harem.
He wus crucified In 1924.
Hold Everything
"I'll bel you miss your buddies
lot, don't you?"
Our Boarding House
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