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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (April 16, 1929)
PAGE TEN The New OREGON STATESMAN, Salem, Oregon, Tuesday Morning, April 16, 1929 - What Em Happened 8o Far At seventeen Daphne Haines finds herself the victim of a hard, calculating stepmother who has married her father for money. Crystal, the second Mrs. Haines' beautiful daughter, becomes the darling-' of the household, usurping Daphne's place in her father's af fections. The two women tolerate Daphne until Ralph McKevitt, a wealthy young man who had been calling upon Crystal, discovers Dahpne in the garden one lovely Soring day. and admirses her, Crystal indignantly resents this, resorts to tears and temperament but, is finally placated when her mother promises to "fix every thing." Realizing that Daphne developing into beautiful woman hood may prove a ' thorn in the path of Crystal's conquest of Mc- Kevttt, Mrs. Haines determinea to make the girl's life miserable. Cleverly she provokes a qaarrel between Daphne and her father. Saw Go On With the Story. CHAPTER in. "That'll be about enough from you.!" Seven words, and they .marked the end of Daphne as a daughter - of the house. It was astonishingly easy. Old ,' Man Haines didn't even notice ; what was happening, and Daphne ! was too proud to protest. "Crystal Is having company to night. I hope you'll let her have the living room. Daphne. Yon can ; read upstairs, can't you?" Or a little ridicule. "I hope you I didn't dress up because Crystal is ' expecting a few friends. Mercy, i what a long face! I believe the child did . . . Crystal, will you ; look at her blush! Maybe thcres J some young man . . . I'll bet it's : Ralbh McKevitt there I knew ! It' look at her, lovesick if ever I saw a lovesick girl. Shame on you. Daphne. "I always said to Crystal, and I'll sy the same to you as If you was my girl. I always said, 'Don't force yourself where you aren't wanted! NSW you bide your time, an when Crystal and a certain party announce their engagement, their we'll have a real big party an' you can Invite some of your friends, and " But Daphne never waited for the promie. Slie fled to her room to read or weep, Mrs. Haines didn't know, and didn't rare which. I've lost him." Daphne thought, and the hot tears would rush to her eyes to be winked away before they were shed. And then, honestly, "So, I haven't, cause I never had him. He took one look at me. and then forgot all about me. I ... I was making believe . . ." Perhaps some day the stage, or p'ctures . . . Juliet, like Jane Cowl. But these things wouldn't come In a minute. You'd have to have something else, some way to earn a living if you weren't clever at coaxing for the money like Mama and Crystal. So she'd sharpen her pencil to a readle-like point and copy the word-signs In the shorthand book, over and over, over and over. Fin ish the business course at High that was the first thing . . . and i then . . .. and then . . . Daphne wasn't so ill-prepared for the world as she looked. Adelina's little ficger was a marvel of elegance as she poured from the new silver teapot. "Cream or lemon?" She was proud of her society manner. Proud of what she was accom pish ing with the old man, too. Why, If he continued to Improve, soon they wouldn't have to be ashamed of him at all. .! She had got him to shave off - the walrus whiskers, to exchange ; the thick gold watch chain for one of finest platinum, and wonder of ' wonders, to stop talking about the butcher business. ''Talk orchards lnstead-ifs more genteel. Be- sides, , you .ain't in the butcher ' v business .no'wAbuer - " - "All right, all right.' Anything " to please the ladies!' t V'' Turner, .the stuck-up neighbor - wan astonished. - He couldn't eet over, the change"- In Old Man Haines. He looked almost young. ; "How : "old are you '.any way, " j. V NEVER SAY DIE! Oddly enough Gobbler question- didn't start a panic In the barn yard. . . "Not one of us In danger rlghtvnow," replied Wild Goose, calmly. "I screamed on purpose Just to attract your attention. You rY eZVa SAY AKr Goose or us j.er? are acting like a young Tulk, Gob. bier, instead of the wise fellow that you are old enough to be. "Nobody Is sorrier than I that 700 have lost your brother, bat it Is one of the things that are al most sura to happen to a turkey some time, or other If all I have heard is true. And, any rate, If Peter's Adv - . , . - "Let him gm broke tvko cmrrtT Haines?" he asked one day. "Sixty-six getting along. Tur ner, getting along." "Sixty-six! Tom don't mean it . . . why man, yon could pass for fifty!" Old Man Haines came home in high spirits. "Said r could pass for fifty." he told Adelina. He was still young. Yean and years ahead. Years to be happy with Adelina ... , And then it came to him his money wouldn't last a year! It . . . It was going fast now. . have to call a halt. . . He went Inside and did some figuring. . He worked most of the night. In the morning he went to see Tulson at the bank. It was on a Wednesday morn ing that Mrs. Haines and Crystal got back. A hot day, full of glar ing sun and dry. spicy smelling dust, swept up from the unpaved orchard road. Crystal, triumph ant and fresh as a daisy, ran ahead. Mrs. Haines followed, fallen arches sagging in pumps that were just a shade too narrow, blue foulard dress and white kid gloves darkly stained with perspiration. "Mercy, it's hot! Pretty soft for you sitting on the porch read ing a book. I don't know why the schools have these long vacations . . . the whole summer . . . Where's your father?" "In the dining room. He's been working with his check book and things all morning, and all last night. He he doesn't seem very well" "Check booksl" Mrs. Haines wheezed. Without stopping to powder her shining nose or remove the tight hat that was making a cruel red line around her aching head, she made for the dining room. "Ab- ner. what does this mean " He looked up from the table where he was working, swept a thick, hairy wrist across his tired old eyes. "Adelina, I I must have been crazy. Didn't stop to realize how the money was going. I'm not a rich man, Adelina, I wish I was I " "Not a rich man . . . Not a . . . what are you saying? My God, have you deceived me? Ab ner. What are you telling me speak up " Daphne heard her stepmother's voice going up and up, hysterical ly, rising to a thin, shrill scream Then her father's low, beseech ing, feverishly explaining, explain ing. . ' With burning cheeks she tip toed away. When she came back Into the house, late in the afternoon. Old Man Haines was still shut in the dining room, working over his books. Upstairs Adelina walked the floor. Back and forth. Back and forth, from the big front room that was hers, full of plump pink silk cushions and baby pictures of enlures ue$.ROQeMce SMITH -. VlNCtHT the Two-Legs " thought enough of him to make him the . center of a feast that Is something to be proud .of. - "Think of our troubles, along with your own. Gobbler! How would you feel It your brohters and sisters were lying on the ground never to rise again, and your little . ones were floating about in a strange pond too weak and weary to raise a wing? v "Look about you ar.d ypu will see that others are having a sad der time , of It than you-! Yet we Wild Geese are not making half the noise that your crowd Is. We never say die not while there Is a single Goose of us left. . That's the spirit," agreed Gob bler, and then, for the first time. looked about him and saw the wounded and weary Wild Geese. I beg your pardon, Geese. You are braver birds than we Turkeys are. Perhaps having to fight your own battles in the cold north gives yon greater courage and bolder hearts than we barnyard folks have. Only one of our family has been' taken from us and yon have lost many. Can we do anything for you, rrienai Nothing that I can thins: of right now," answered JVild Goose, slowly, "unless, of course, yon would mind not making -quite so much noise." Gladly yon mentioned It! Glad yon mentioned It!" cried Gobbler heartily. "Come on, folks, let's take ourselves off to a corner where wo can talk things over without disturbing our guests from the clouds. The Geese, poor things, want to rest, and here we bare been gobbling our beads off. Besides I am starving, and u I remember correctly, oyer by the tree there is a soft snot where the grabs gather, If Crystal, to the frothy green cool ness of Crystal's room. Crystal groaned, trying to curl her baek hair. "Let him go broke -who cares? I'll be married any time now and then " "You only think of yourself," Mrs. Haines went on hysterically, "it's my own rault, bringing you up so selfish. Working my fin gers to the bone. for you---' POLLY AND HER PALS MGOSH.1 IM RUlKJEDf ) w THAT BWCK CAT ufcL BwvW. ft- Oft tw t t t TILLIE, THE TOILER I WAS kSMVE A RAD FR IDAV M KoHT SO ve could IM Ol THE FI6HT. Buy i r MI L .1 V n 1 Li C IMS. Kmi ratarn SyaJkat, tue. Cm SntalM rifMi LITTLE ANNIE ROONEY fMP.TAVLER." W Oi Si r a THE STAM0 GOOFEY MOVIES I lillilllllllllUIll 1111 r Mr i ha nx v SLOW DOWN DAMGEJ2 AMEAQ? f VOL) ACE. WOT A, MESA&EfZ CT THE, CO MOT TCV TO rrTEKJO TWS SECCET AAEETlrOG! ME CC S AM IKJTEPEST1M& LETTEP FROM LOCAL , 0 PASAOE.MA, CAUP... - SATS TUEY MOLD THEIR UUWILE Ikf SWJiMAiiroG, "Mama will you shut up!" Somebody was coming ap the stairs, the two women paused-to listen. But It was only Daphne. Daphne, white and wan in a faded middy. "There's a C O. D. down stairs from the city for Crystal, a hundred and eighty dollars." "I told you to charge it!" Crys tal shrilled, galvanized Into action now, and glaring accusingly at her mother. Mrs. Haines stopped whining, her loose mouth tightened. She stared bitterly and dotingly at her daughter. "I never thought," she began falterlngly. "I never thought but what it would be easy to get the money ' More . voices downstairs. The old man's stern and angry. "No, I won't pay I didn't order it. Take it away!" The front door slammed, and the old man shuffled toward the stairway. They heard him coming np, heavily, breathing hard. "Your father turned out fine I must say!" Adelina shrieked to Daphne. "I mighta known I was a tool to trust him!" (To Be Continued) Section Hand to Save Earnings After Disaster CHICAGO. April 15. (AP) For ten years Aaron Toma, a sec tion hand lived on 20 cents a day. From his $106 a month wages as a section hand, the hopeful immi grant saved $13,700. Trustingly, he gave his savings to his cousin, George Toma. Today he - appeared in probate court to press his claim against his cousin's estate, and learned from Judge Edelman that the money had been Invested in south side mortgages, now worthless. Aaron looked at the Judge. He looked at his grimy overalls and his gnarled hands. "I'll start all over again," he said huskily. "I will live on J 2 a month." EkJOUSH l GO OUT I FORGOT TO VOUfS. TELL VOC House tokvvgHm THAT MAC'S AsiO FIV T for. you, COMIWQ tonight, i hope this r&M'T him SAVIM HE CAN'T p com g f MOW, MR.TAMLEQ. PuTAWAPAOTF0g THEY THE ARREST OF 'wc I re 'JBfcLRYrlFELT ANNIE R00MEU IT. AMOMRaeons TW4TAMKES ("THE CMAPTEft ALL OOBT IT ooeswT m I MnCPVAA YUsycn-To. ioe ooghT to feeuOVeahwas t l swuk.x uxxjlOm't want to let I I w V.TV7il."-e WieWTY J'WW TO M OWRaE THINKIM ABOUT IT- VV BE. PKES1DBf4T:j..MS JOB k 7 f5 Diet and --jt By. L. ulu Hunt Peters Precautions Against Iafectiom "TN the first stages of tubercu- I losis, when there is a tem . perature but the sputum is negative, is it necessary to scald the patient's dishes? And what about the bed clothing and personal laun dry? I want to know about this so as to safeguard the health of the rest of the family. A." Yes, all pre cautions should be taken aralrmt f-nfert- 3 ing the rest cf tutumaPewtSJU the family. where there is active tuberculosis. A. While one examination ot the sputum might not disclose tuberculosis bacili, the next specimen might have it. All the patient's clothing, in cluding the bed clothes, should be boiled or steamed, separate from the rest of the family's laundry, and handled as little as possible when dry. Tuberculosis can be successful ly treated in the home, but it has to be done by methods similar to those used in the sanitarium, and the caretaker must know those methods. If she doesn't, she should, if possible, visit a sanitar ium, or go to the health depart ment and as for Instructions for home care. For several reasons, it is bet ter for the patient to be la a san itarium, for" there he is given an intelligent knowledge of the dis ease, learns what he can expect to happen, so he won't be panic stricken when he may be worse on certain days, etc.; he is where others have similar interests and S r- I ;V,' ...HOC AT IT' 1 .iVSfcU- 0 BAD LUCK. ) I T TO I auvajav s UKE TO tC you im Macs OUT ma HE'S A FlMEj "MAM 9 mil aar. x rae 'BECAUSE . 1 7411 'a icoenrt it irrXJ I SUPPOSE MOU STOLE THE, ALW5 tXXWOUQ DUTV.MR. M4 OUTV; V r - rid , - t U AS TWS. . Y'KKXXO UOE ABE rfL,T TWAK) 8EJNG J 8ESIOES.TWECE& MO I . r : . - m. t j - I If i Crv I-' I fKJ...i r- i M4i 1 I WCKC OJKKT, OJ I UUK I fVfc I I -, FODM SMACK. AKJO SMACK GUM J LJS OP LOG SOQT OP HAVB OOMPAKJV.....TMEV HAVE A K3ECO . A - A WUMCU THAT PHtL WJIUL 1 ( ptAMOQi AMO UiKJT TO CALL IT Jl BE SACK IKJ TAAE RpQ THE A -THVE''&00eV?GA0a GOM yiUFl MEKT AAEETIMO OP COORSECOeNI MIX i!drer? is not tempted to overdo himself; he is not allowed any visitors for any length of time who will, ex cite or worry him, etc. Tuberculosis is a curable dis ease, but to be cured, the doctor must have full co-operation from the patient, and, also from his rel atives and friends. We have an article on the sub ject, which goes Into the diet, etc., and gives a list of books on the subject written by authorities for the layman. This will be helpful to you. "My mother is bothered with gas on her stomach, can eat but certain foods, and does not enjoy anything she eats. The weak spells she has are alarming to us all. What is the cause of gas and belching? She is 70 years old, and seemingly in good health, ex cept for these spells of belching and gas which leave her extreme ly weak. "Large bruised 6pots have come on her arms and hands, and she also has a place on her nose which worries her. The snots on the hands disappear, but in a few weeks they are as bad as ever. "MRS. E." Gas in the intestines can arise from many conditions, Mrs. E. reflexly from inflammations of the organs connected with the in testinal tract, such as the appen dix or gall bladder, or reflexly from infections elsewhere, or to nervousness. Or it may be due directly to wrong diet excess of starches and sugars, especially, ar apt to cause gas. And excess protein may cause putrefaction and gas. Hemorrhages under the skin and mucous membranes may be symptoms of scurvy, Mrs. E. The brulsed-looking spots on her. arms and hands may be hemorrhagic wotchaX dokjt You read The I I Hy.TAi! thet N " PAPERS 5H&'S BEEtnJ PHUCKfcR FILM CO.) SVA fJMiSSIrJS A WEEK, ArJD sj xOn3T SPARE: OH, H6UJ-0, BILL. - SURE, COME ON OUT TOM16HT. I'LC B"& TEteLy LOME'S OME lf you OOM-T hovai up. Bill. - Do MES-I AM SURE EVERYONE IM THIS COURTROOM spots, and if they are, they might indicate that she has scurvy. This indicates lack of the anti -scurvy vitamin in her diet. I suggest you send for our article on Bal anced Diet. Of course, your moth er, at her age, should have a sim ple diet, and the quantity has to be lessened considerably from what it was when she was younger. Take your mother to a physi cian for a check-up. The spot which bothers her on her nose must be watched. EditorJ Wote: Dj. Peters cannot diagnose, nor give personal advice. Your questions. it of general Inter est, will be answered in the col umn, in turn. -Requests for articles must be accompanied by a fully self-addressed, stamped envelope and 2 cents in coin for each article, to cover cost of printing and hand . ling. For the pamphlet on reduc ing and gaining, 10 cents In coin, with fully self-addressed, stamped envelope, must be enclosed. Ad dress Dr. Peters, in care of this paper. Frank Reeves Is Hired For Police Duty in This City In order to provide better police protection for the business district of Salem while the regular pa trolmen take their vacations, Frank Reeves, former city mar shal at Jefferson, has been em ployed as a relief officer, it was announced Saturday. This was done on the authority of the health and police commit tee after ten members of the coun cil had signed an agreement to ratify the action. The vacation season for police, men has already started and Reeves began his duties Friday. The vacations will continue until September 1. . Grumblers who aver that spring is backward may find comfort at least in the fact that the mercury here is indulging in no such acro batics as have been noted In the Middle West. Bend Bulletin. MAC, MOMSy, 60MMA vtD JL I r "THlMK THATq A MICE vuAy TO TR-EAT MAC. VUHEM HE'S SO'N6 E VOUR- 1 ll:rilLS-lfiiililn--- 11 fsZl Lr, iniiv nil ii i i j m a - k. - wssssr am m v. - Nick Haas Quits Job -1 With State N. J. (Nick) Haa-i. oldest MUe employe with gelation to length t f service, Saturday resigned his o sition as bead of the notarial di vision of the state department. Mr. Haas has be-n ill for several years and is now receiving meii cal treatment in a Portland hos pital. Mr. Haas entered the state lr partment here un-Ier George Mc Bride, secretary of state, in 1891. He previously operated the stateV house elevator for two years. His service with the state covered a period of approximately 40 yeai. Hal Hoss, secretary of stai-. said he had not y-?t selected Mr. Haas' successor. New Books Are Received Here By Library Body Several books on the correct ,),. of words have roent!y ben re ceived by the .-al-?m " public li brary. The book are: Kit hU , Well Bred English ; Fowler: ex cise Oxford Dictionary of CunT.t Usage; Fowler: Dktionarv or Modern English Tsage: Krapp: Comprehensive Guide to Goo.! English; Smita: Words aid Idioms; Weekley- Word AneWrt and Modern; Greevr and Jones: Century Handbook of Writing. SENIOR PLAY READY SILVERTON. April 15 . Ti senior class play, "The Early Bird," will be presented in ! Eugene auditorium on Friday ear ning. Elizabeth K?-re. Maifciif rite Sat her. Bud N'unburg aHd Joe Lytle are ta&in the lead-rg roles. By CLIFF STERRETT By RUSS WESTOVER e.OTHE'2. HE'S : R-ACM By VERD rops 'SESSION EMDEt? IM WILD . .' Disorder ;V It is bdtetfad ttet tkcasa ill .'totb juyij. tomorrow By NEHEaj GET ..THE 'MEvETlfs)3 IS AJEAGLV HALf OVEiC. Y i ATTENTIOM-FANS.' LOKV pOMT -TOO RSRM A ' 6CANCH CLU8 'OP THE 1 600FEY 6ANG" IKi voor Oujnj KjeiGneoRMoco. AAAIL A 2 STAMP TO GOOFEY Aovjies; 9vtwis PAPea - foq. PULL I M FO QMATlOM ...