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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 28, 1929)
PAGE EIGHT The OREGON STATESMAN, Salem. Oregon, Tffedcnsday Morning. Angnst 28, 1929 Blue filoocl And Red by ROBERT TERRY SHANNON WHAT HAS GONE BEFORE Eddie Regan, onre a member of a K-w York sang;, has broken away and rone to Virginia, where he be friends Penfield Paradine, who dies and leaves all his possession to Eddie. Eddie had been in love with Bernice Veressi, "gang girl," but all thought of her is lost when he meets and falls in love with Marian Thorndike. Marian Is engaged to Tom l-'reeman. Freemnn and Kddie dislike each other, and Ed die discouraged, goes to Richmond, where ha meets Mike Arno, a former member of the gang, who tries to per suade him to return to New York and Bernice. Eddie, howeer, returns to his farm and telephones Marian asking her if he may call. Kreeman overhears the conversation and -a fight ensues, in which Eddie knocks Freeman out and takes him to Marian's home. Free man la revived and tells Eddie he wants to be friends and they snake hands on the bargain. Eddie Is Invited to the Thorndlke home for dinner and Marian's father questions him . as to his past. More determined than ever to win Marian. Eddie returns home and a few days later he Is surprised when Bernice Veressi comes to his home. KOW CO ON WITH THE STORT CHAPTER XXXVII Independently of his will, he could feel the unleased currents of her vital magnetism beating all around him, radiations of sheer woman force as primitively potent as the age-old power of Eve. There was an odd sensation and his mind shook as a tree shakes in a storm. He could not ask her how she came or why. "I couldn't stand it any longer, I had to come to you," she de clared, breathlessly, releasing her embrace and stepping back while her dark eyes devoured him. "Good God, Eddie. I've been tarred waiting for you." Not bo soon was he able to think oU the complications her descent utfon him would bring. "How did you know where I was? How did you find me?" "Mike Arno told me. He met you in Richmond. When he came back to New York, he gave me your address. I had to come, Ed die. I'm sick of everybody else on earth but you." Still be was not definitely think ing. He answered her by instinct "You made a mistake." "I had to, Eddie." "It's all wrong. You can't stay here." Bernice Veressi picked at the end3 of her gloves and took them off. Her eyes were dark, impene trable caverns. She sat down slowly in a chair. In the old-fashioned room with its high ceiling and the rich mel lowness of its antique furnishings she burned vividly dark and ex otic against the quiet background. Her smartness transported Eddie's mind back to New York to the flash of Broadway. She was silken and sinuous in her trim gray tailored suit, bril liant contrasts of color intensified her; red heels lit the gray suede slippers; her leather bag, and the small cloth hat, too, were red. The smooth sweep of gray silk en legs was revealed intimacy. "You think I was crazy to come, Eddiet" "You don't understand " he began; but it was too difficult to v continue. "I couldn't help myself I've been dreaming about you too long in my mind. When you left I had Just started to want you, and the wanting kept on growing. Nothing else would satisfy me. I've been true to you, Eddie." "That's what Mike Arno said." "Funny ain't it?" Me being true to a guy that never had me in the first place." Her lovely but bold eyes were moist. "Honest, It grew on me like a habit this wanting to be with you. Just when I was beginning to know that we belonged to each other, you were snatched away from me." Her hands worked nervously. "I don't think I really loved you at that time, It was just starting and has been growing ever since." She looked at him Intently, then continued: "Every day I waited for you to come back and I didn't live for a damn thing else on. earth besides dreaming you had your arms around me." Eddie breathed deeply and sat down. Vibrations of active, palpi tating emotion filled the room. It was as though a lot of electricity had got loose and was circulating around. "That's tough." he said, seri ously. "I never bad an idea you'd get steamed up over any guy." "I never was before never. Gee, I remember how you used to look at me! A nice clean kid that I liked. But I figured to get something out of you." She seemed to go limp In her chair. "That's why I wanted you to join the Big Guy's mob. I had an idea of hooking you for a flat and a car and a fur coat. Oh, I don't deny 1t!" Her voice sank to the smallest whisper. "And then when you blew, I realized that I'd, been monkeying with something like dangerous germs. It was like I'd got myself infected with a fever. I forgot about everything else and all I wanted was you. Nothing in God's world but you." "Arno ought'nt have told where I was," Eddie muttered. Her smooth, dark face clouded with sultry, disappointment. But there was no vexation in her voice, only desperate appeal. "Can't you be just a little bit glad to see me, Eddie? I'm not the kind to make a fool-out of my self over any man except you." "Sure, I'm glad to see you," he responded unenthusiastically. "You're a great girl, Bernice. but you've made a mistake, wasting your time on a guy like me." Eddie struggled desperately to make himself clear. "You've built up a picture in your mind, and I'm nothing like it a-tall. You've kidded yourself into this." ' "No, I've not kidded myself, Ed die. I mean it. I belong to you every bit of me and I'd throw myself at your feet and let you walk on me if you wanted to." Her voice rose hysterically. "That'B how strong I mean it, Eddie . . .you've got to want me . . . I'll make you . . . you've got to." Eddie struggled against the rise of a disturbance in his breast that would amount to pain unless he held it in check. By this bolt of chance, as blind ing and devastating as lightning, his whole relationship to life was blasted. It meant utter ruination . . . the swift destruction of all hope Marian Thorndike would be forever lost to him. The wheels of imagination sped forward and he had a sickening conception of his downfall. A woman like Bernice could not be explained away. She was now under his roof existing as a damn ing, Incontestable fact. She reek ed with carnality the loose, clo ven footed worldliness of his haunting past. He looked again at Bernice Ver essi and she was not beautiful. She was a hollow-eyed skull, a flapping scare crow, grotesque and sinister, come to embrace him In horrid lecherous arms. With difficulty he ahook the morbid vision out of his mind and looked again at her, trying to reconcile her presence with these surroundings. Even In the midst of his disas ter, a native streak of under standing tolerance came over him. According to her lights, Bernice had intended him no harm. In deed there was, by nature of her very reeklesness a kind of single hearted parity in her passion. She had come to give, not to take, to build, not to destroy. "You'll have to go, Bernice," he told her, commanding himself to patience. "I'm living here .alone. You can't stay in this house with me." "Why not?" she inqutreeVWe are away out here a million miles from any place " (To be continued tomorrow.) Judge Orders Case Removed Federal Court Removal of the case from the circuit court here to the federal district court in Portland was granted Tuesday by Judge Kelly after hearing counsel for both par ties in the case of F. J. Walker vs. the Standard Accident Insurance company. The removal of the case, which concerns an action for dam ages brought against the father of the three-year old Gervais boy killed in an auto accident in June, was granted by the Judge because the defendant is an out-of-state corporation and the case involves more than $3000. . Home-Making Helps By ELEANOR ROSS I BUILDING II M SALT LAKE CITY, Aug. 17. (AP) Collective living was held up aa a growing problem to home builders at the convention of the United States league of local build ing and loan associations, here to day. Lee C. Stidd, of Portland, Ore., declared the modern tendency was not conducive of home ownership, that the expense of maintaining a home has Increased until '"in com parison with renting, it has be come an economic factor." "Our greatest liability to socie ty today,"be asserted, "is to min imize the burden and expense In cident to home ownership. Our ex emption laws, exempting the home from confiscation when adversity overtakes the owner, help in this direction. -"In other words," Mr. Stidd add ed, "the prospects for developing the building and loan business do not hinge on our ability to finance large apartment houses. Industrial plants and other business enter prices, but they d most emphatic ally depend upon our ability to develop the desire among the renting population for homes of their own." Walter F. McDowell, of Tacoma, Wash., president of the league, de clared in his address this morn ing that It was necessary to study the fundamental problems In the every day life of the people in or der to succeed in business. Mr. McDowell said the bootleg ging problem would vanish If bus inessmen refused to deal with bootleggers. Soaps and Devices for Easy Cleaning What with the many good cleansing agents and tools, any lady can do all her own house cleaning without actually sticking her bare hands in hot water. Or marring a perfect manicure. First of all, there should be several sets of household gloves in the cleaning closet thick, roomy ones of cotton or chamois that slip on easily and thoroughly protest the hands from dust and grime; some rubber ones of good qnality to wear for damp jobs. Second, buy cleaning devices that come on long handles when ever possible. This not only pro tects against too close contact with dust, but also reduces the amount of bending and stooping. The dustpan with a three to five foot wire handle saves work. This type of dustpan also has a lid which closes automatically when lifted from the floor, and thus pre vents dust from accidentally blow ing out again. Scrubbing brushes as well as mops come on long handles. Very 3 New Junior Y. M. C. A. Clubs Are Organized Plans for the organization of three new clubs within the junior membership of the Y. M. C. A were discussed at the meeting of the Junior board Tuesday night. The proposal to install a radio set and phonograph in the boys' lobby was discussed; also the mat ter of giving high school boys the use of the Y. on week nights. An overnight hike for boys who attended the summer camp, was tentatively scheduled for Septem ber 6. The campers' club will meet Wednesday night of next week, September 4, at which time a log book of the camp will be presented by a committee ap pointed for thepurpose. . . . . wet Si-- .- bin:; it's almost obsolete. Oil cloth coverings on floors and tar bles, plain painted finish cn walls and woodwork are cleansed easily by the soaped mop and rinin? j treatment. For ordinary duins j there are all sorts of long-handled brushes and they are made in shapes that enable them to pene-1 trate any corner. Flat brushes, oblong ones, triangular ones on swivel bearings, thin elongated radiator brushes that pry the dust from invisible corners. For walls and ceiling the lamb's wool mop on a very long handle clean ses or polishes. But even when doing the damp cleaning it's not necessary to put the hands in water. For the bathtub a long, soft-bristled brush will scrub the enamel to gleaming whiteness. For floor mopping there's the Inexpensive string mop with a metal rod run ning through the center. A twist of this rod and the mop is wrung. No hands need touch the wet ends. In stocking the cleaning closet it is safer to err on the side of mild rather than strong soaps. Lye and soda are too powerful for habitual use. It is true they are rapid cleansers and grease remov ers, but they are harmful to the skin and even to finishes. More over, there are now any number of cleansers which are as effect ive as any average household re quires. Soap flakes can now be bought for small sums, and as they make suds more quickly than cake soap they clean more quickly and more evenly. Ordinarily, a mild soap flake solution will clean adequate ly. For especially difficult clean ing ammonia or borax will do the job. Neither of these cleansers will Injure the hands as do lye and soda. Nevertheless, it isn't necessary to use them regularly when plain soap and water suf fice. The chief value of ammon ia, washing soda and borax is that they will pry out long-caked dust so that arduous scrubbing isn't necessary. Powerful cleansers like oxalic GOODNIGHT STORIES By Max TrtJl The Golden Watermelon, ayitb. Jewel Seeds, is S'-iH Ting-a-Iiing's Cherished Tresfm "And what happened next?" K arf a?ked. yes what happened next? asked Mij. Flor, Hanid and Yam, the other little shadow-children with the odd turned-about names. They were addressing Ting-a-Ling. their Chinaman friend from the Chinese Plate. Yesterday he had started to tell them a strange story, which had come about when he saw little Knarf putting hia hands apart to describe how large he thm-nt a w.'ttfr-rrr.rlon wr. " 7 I I wm Safe Under th' Cherry Tre.' He had gone on to say that one day, as he was in the King's garden, he "had discovered a white elephant with wings. Cling ing to the tail of the elephant, he was carried far beyond the clouds to a mountain-peak where all the trees and vines were made of sil ver, the fruits of gold and the seeds of precious jewels. Of all the frult9, the most valuable were the golden watermelons which he acid, which removes stains on wood and metal are poisonous and should never be kept on the perm anent cleaning shelves, but pur chased aa needed and disposed of at once. much desirea to take nome, vi could not on account of tt r great size and weight. He decid. I ed therefore to return with t!;. elephant with just a few gid. ., grape3 as samples, j "And what happened Efxr. ' j Knarf repeated. j "Well," said Tinp-a-Lir.g. I 'j waited until I saw i!e ma.nio -j pliant getting ready ta rt'inu J the King's gardoU. TUeu I g Till ed it a tail and it flew brick wit., m leaving me sate and si-suiii under the royal eher.y tree. With out heftitutiag a moment, l-r;u ! home to tell my wife what had happened to nie. 'You're late for dinner!' she said to me by way of greeting. She was a little dis turbed, you see, because I was usually very punctual. When 1 showed her the goldeo grapes, however, she became joyful. "But these are nothing compared with the watermelons that abound in that magic garden," I ,told her. "One melon is enough to raak us so wealthy that we shall never have to work again." "fTing-a-Llng.' she said, "To morrow I shall go with you to this magic garden. We shall p one of those ffolden watermelon into mv aoron. How large did you say they were?" "Very large." I replied. "Larg er than you have ever seen." "On the morrow we both wait ed for the elephant. When it came I rrasDed its tail as before. tightly with both hands, and myl wife held onto my legs. Then the elephant flew off." "And did you get the water, melons?" Knarf wanted to know. TIng-a-Ling smiled sadly. "A curious thing happened," he said, "which shows how foolish it is to describe anything with your hands. We had just got beyond the highest clouds when my wife called up to me. Ting-a-LIng,' she said, 'how large did you say the watermelons were?' 'Quite large," I replied 'Quite large doesn't tell me how large,' she said. 'Well,' I said at last, 'they are that large" and I showed her with my hands Just how larpe they were. But the moment I did so, I let go of the elephant's tail and we both tumbled down. And as we never saw the elephant again, we never got tbe golden watermelon." to UtJ DB 1 1 1 POLLY AND HER PALS "Means of 'Flht'?' By CLIFF STERRETTj THE QlStSTiOhJ W& GOT1A SOLVE, IS. WHEJ?fc The HECK ARB WE? GOOD FOOD NEEDED TO BUILD HEALTHY BRAIN rhe Growing Child Should Have Plenty of Eggs, Milk, Fruit and Vegetables, Says Dr. Copeland, Citing the Results of Intelligence Tests. By ROYAL S. COPELAND, M. D. United States Senator from New York. Former Commissioner of Health, yew York City. MORE and more we realize that food has a most important place in determining the state of health. In times past, food has been something merely to appease the appetite. Anything o fill the daily demands of the stomach seemed all that was necessary. B'TIS KO SECR&Tl AJ,Wfellh4TAONl&.aa35MLETsi i fiuY FLACE. DEL . THE: 5 1 WrTIi tSlR. WE A&x: Tgg pDcKW FT! THrzSfr qq, guT J g more MOVES. 1 M NAmiU THE H HOLLrrF? naMlLS. S WTT, n . 1 IthE LIKELIER WE SB If H&RE 4RE m? m HOLLOW W4LLS 1 XtoCQ OCCUPIED S im UAPPtoJ OM A US I S6 JL S Or'GZAVST.l l&Z'mrLd i EXJT.' E- -gUy i THAT MV WA TILLIE, THE TOILER "A Basis for Settlement" By RUSS WESTOVEI?; ( SWEET MAMA $9022 FOR ONE I IIlvSTEM. THAT SUFT WOULDN'T BE I KTo L5 ( JtI JLtlV.? TfM- I fl-nSLi. H Ou WOmT PAt UKwESw SUIT OF CLOTHES THAT TAILOR VVOR.TH t?022, P T WfcWE UNED VtSSS .lErC 1 ?5 T.JJ5f S MAKtS OU NlhiE. -PA OI r-. " V . -: Tfci -i - UK. COPELAND. The real need of food Is "to supply energy, to build a healthy framework, strong muscles and red blood. There cannot be a healthy brain with out an unfailing supply of good food. One of the most interesting facts brought to light in recent years is that low intelligence is often the result of inadequate or poor food. Dr. John Munroe, of Long Island University, has come to the conclusion that intelligence is not entirely an hereditary possession. Several years ago Dr. Munroe made some- interesting intelligence tests on 700 pnblic school children. The homes of these children were graded accord ing to certain food and cookery standards. Other conditions of environment were also considered. The tests covered the lives of the children through school and college, or business life. It was found that the students who lost points in these tests from year to vesr. were those who came from tomes where the food corditions were poor, or below the average. In one experiment, two groups of ten children were taken from families of fairly high intelligence. Besides the regular meals, milk ind egga were fed twice a day to one group of ten. At the end of h xperiment. with th exception' f one child. It wu found that all these children had an Increase In In telligence superior to that of the troup which bad not been given the esrnoga. The latter were on a nor mal borne diet. Poor food la false economy. Tour Child cannot make good grades at school If he ia Improperly nourished. Your little daughter may be fretful . and perverse. Her brother perhaps baa a low mark In hla studies and deportment Look well into It, for the fault may not be theirs. It may be partly due to aome lack In the diet JrN not necessary to have the most expensive food, but care must be taken to have the proper kind. Tbe (rowing child should be given plenty of milk and egga. fresh fruit, vegetables, meat in moderation, and. of course, simple desserts. It Is well to have at least one warm, luncheon dish and always a variety. Serve a soup, hot chocolate or some scalloped dish. There are endless numbers of tempting dishes that may be served. It take lots of energy for proper growth aad to allow for playing aad studying. All children Uke ice cream. In tbe hot Summer days it Is better far lng ices, such as sherbets made from fruit Juices, than the heavier pies and rich pastries. They should, as a mat ter of fact, be served the year round. Ice cream and ices are nourishing, easily digested and sure to tempt the appetite. Often they serve as an in centive for eating the plainer dishes of the meal. These are the days of the electric ice cream freexers, which are so easy" to manipulate. And bow much bet ter the home-made ice cream Is than any one can buyl As I write this it is a sizzling- hot day. I can think of nothing t should like better as a finishing touch to my dinner than a dish of home-made lea cream. Answer to Health Queries V. M. 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