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PAGE TEN The OREGON STATESMAN, Salon. Oregon, Thnrsday Morning, October 10, 1929 1 1 f&ll Quiet Z Western Front" CHAPTER XXI It Is the last evening at home. : Everyone is silent. I go to bed early. X seize tne pillow, press It against myself and bury my head t In it. Who knows if I will ever lie In a "feather bed again? Late in the night my mother comes into my room. She thinks 1 am asleep, and I pretend to be so. To' talk, to stay awake with one another It is too hard. She sits long into the night, al though she is in pain and often writhes. At last I can bear it no longer, and pretend I have just wakened up. "Go to sleep. Mother, you will catch cold here." "I can sleep enough later,' she says. I sit up. "I don't go straight back to the front. Mother. I have to do tour weeks at the training camp. I may come over from there one Sunday, perhaps." I She is silent. Then she asks gently: "Are you very much afraid?" "No, Mother." " "I would like to tell you to be on your guard against the -wom en out in France. They are no good!" Ah! Mother! Mother! You still think I am a child why can I not put my head in your lap and weep? Why hate I always to be strong and self-controlled? I would like to weep and be comforted, too; in deed. I am little more than a child; in the wardrobe still hang my short, boy's trousers it is such a little time ago, why is it over? "Where we are there aren't any women. Mother." I say as calmly as I can. "And be very careful at the front. Paul." Ah. Mother, Mother! Why do I not take you in my arms and die with you? What poor wretches we ore! "Yes, Mother! I will." "I will pray for you every day, Paul." Ah! Mother. Mother! Let us rise up and go out, back through the years, where the burden of all this misery lies is us no more. back to you and me alone. Mo ther! "Perhaps you can get a job that is not so dangerous. "Yea, Mother, perhaps I can get into the cook-house than can eas ily be done." "You do it then and if the oth ers say anything " i i "That won't worry me. Mother She sighs. Her face is a white gleam in the darkness. "Now you must go to sleep Mother." - She does not reply. I get up and wrap my cover round her shoul ders. She supports herself on my arm She is in pain. And bo I take her to her room. I stay with her little while. "And you must get well again Mother, before I come back. "Yes, yes, my child. "You ought not to send your things to me. Mother. We have plenty to eat out there. You can make much better use of them here." How destitute she lies there in her bed, she that loves me more than all the world. As I am about to leave, she says hastily: "I have two pairs of underpants for you. They are all wool. They will keep you warm. You must not forget to put them in your pack." Ah! Mother! I know what these underpants have cost you in wait ing, and walking, and begging! Ah! Mother! Mother! how can it be that I must part from you? Who else is there that has any claim on me but you? Here I sit and there you are lying, and we have so much to say, that we could never say it. "Good-night. Mother." "Good-night, my child." The room is dark. I hear my mother's breathing and the tick-' ing of the clock. Outside the win dow the wind blows and the chest nut trees' rustle. On the landing I stumble over my, pack which lies there already made up, because I have to leave early in the morning. I bite into my pillow. I grasp the iron roda of my bed with my fists. I ought never to have come here. But there I was indifferent and often hopeless; I will never be able to be so again. I was a soldier, and now I am nothing but an agony for myself, for my mo ther, for everything that js so comfortless and without end. I ought never to have come on leave. I already know the camp on the Moors." It was here that Himmel- stoss gave Tjaden his education. But now I know hardly anyone here; as ever, all Is altered. There are only a few people that I have occasionally met before. I go through the routine me chanically. In the evenings I gen erally go to the Soldiers' Home, where the newspapers are laid out but which I do not read; still, there is a piano there that I am glad enough to play on. Two girls are in attendance, one of them Is young. The camp is surrounded with high barbed-wire fences. If we come back late from the Soldiers' Home we have to show passes. But those who are on good terms with the guard can get through, of course. Between the junipers and the birch trees on the moor we prac tice company drill each day. It is bearable if one expects nothing better. We advance at a run, fling ourselves down and our panting breath moves the stalks of the grasses and the flowers of the heather to and fro. Looked at so closely one sees the fine sand is composed of millions of. the tiniest pebbles as clear as If they had been made in a laboratory. It is strangely inviting to dig one's hands into it. But most beautiful are the woods with their line of birch trees. Their color changes with every minute. Now the stems gleam purest white, and between them, airy and silken, bangs the pastel-green of the leaves; the next moment all-changes to an opalescent brae, as the shivering breezes pass down from the heights and touch the green light ly away; and again in one place it deepens almost to black as a cloud passes over the sun. And this shadow moves like a ghost through the dim trunks and pass es far out over the moor to the sky then the birches stand out again like gay banners on white poles, with their red and gold patches of autumn-tinted leaves I often become so lost in the play of soft light and transparent shadow that I almost fail to hear the commands. It is when one is alone that one begins to observe nature and to love her. And here finding. Everything gets eafen, notwith standing, and if ever anyone is so well off as not to want MI ntalftlngg they had Kow they wear share, there are a dozen others standing by ready to relieve him of it. Only the dregs that the ladle cannot reach are tipped out and thrown in the garbage tins. Along with that sometimes go a few tur nip peelings,' mouldy bread crusts and all kinds of muck. This thin, miserable dirty gar bage is the objective of the prison ers. They pick it out of the stink ing tins greedily and go off with it under their blouses. It Is strange to see these ene mies of ours so close up. They have faces that make one think honest peasant faces, broad fore heads, broad noses, broad month, broad hands, and thick hair. They ought to be put to thresh ing, reaping And apple picking. They look just as kindly as our own peasants In Frtesland. It is distressing to watch their movements, to see them begging for something to eat. They are all rather feeble, for they only get enough nourishment to keep them from starving. Ourselves we have not had sufficient to eat for long enough. They have dysentery. Their backs, their necks are bent, their knees sag, their heads droop as they stretch out their hands and beg in the few words of German that they know beg with those soft, deep, musical voices, that are like warm stoves and cosy rooms at home. Some men there are who give them a kick, so that they fall over; butThose are not many. The majority do nothing to them, just ignore them. Occasionally when they are too grovelling, It makes a man mad and then he kicks them. If only they would not look at one so What great misery can be in two such small spots, no bigger, than &i man s thumb In their, eyes! ' . . They come over to the camp in the evenings and trade. They ex change whatever they possess for bread. Often they have fair suc cess, because they have very good boots and ours are bad. The leath er of their knee boots is wonder fully soft, like suede. The peasants among as who get tit-bits sent from horns can afford to trade. The price ot a pair of boots Is about two or three loaves of army bread, or a loaf of bread and a small, tough horn sausage. But most of the Russians have long since parted with whatever only the most pitiful clothing and try to exchange little carvings and objects that they have made out of shell fragments and copper driving bands. Of course, they don't get much for such things, though they may have taken im mense pains with them they go for a slice or two of bread. Our peasants are hard and cunning when they bargain. They hold the pieces of bread or sausage right under the most of the Russian till he grows pale with greed and his eyes bulge and then he will give anything for it. The peasants wrap up their booty with utmost sol emnity, and then get out their big pocket knives, and slowly and deliberately cut off a slice of bread for themselves from their supply and with every mouthful take a piece of the good, tough sausage and so reward themselves with a good feed. It is distressing to watch them take their after noon meal thus; one would like to crack them over their thick pates. They farely give anything away. How little we understand one another! (To be continued) GOOD-NIGHT STORIES Bj Max Trell Oh, Was This Wolf Fierce! My! My! "My, what a fierce wolf you are!" little Yam exclaimed. Mij, Flor, Hanid. and Knarf the oth er little shadow-children with the turned-about names nodded In agreement. "You're the fiercest wolf we've ever seen," they said. Th wolf smiled. He was quite proud of himself. He liked to be told how fierce he was. Not that he wasn't sure of himself. Oh, yes, indeed! He knew very well that he was one of the fiercest animals: one that caused others to tremble with fear at the mere mention of his name. "I eat things up alive," he told the shadows. "My teeth are so sharp that they can bite through anything." The shadows gazed at him half til ftdmlration, half in awe. They even' trembled themselves a little and wished they weren't standing so close. "Can yon bite through a door mat?" Knarf asked. "Pouf!- tlie wolf snorted. "I can bite through a doormat and through everyone standing on it. That's how much I can bite." This was very startling. "What's more," he continued in a louder voice "I can bite through everyone whether he's standing on a doormat or not." Ae he spoke "Yon did! Why wasn't I Invit ed? Everyone knows how much I like lamb, especially for din ner!" "Maybe," Knarf said, "the peo ple don't like to have wolves at the table. I always hear the real children's mother telling them: Now, take your time and don't eat like a pack of wolves.'" Upon hearing this, the wolf gTew terribly angry. "Insult me like that!" he howled. "I'll eat them up, I will! I'll teach them back!" "O-oh, please," Hanid begged, "you must forgive them. They didn't know they were insulting you." "I'll not forgive them! I'll eat them up!" Just then they heard the sound of voices. It was the real-children drawing near. "I'll eat them NOW!" he roared. And with, that he sprang high into the air. At that moment the real-children stopped to pick something up from the dining-room table. "Oh. it's a wolf," they exclaim ed. And each one of them ate a little piece of him. for it was only a soda-cracker wolf, you see. F i ie is "What Fierce Wolf I" he fixed his eye on Mij, who was a plump little shadow-boy. "Don't you think so?" he roared. 'Oh, y-yes s-sir," Mij hastened to reply. The wolf glanced around hung rily. 'I wish I had something to eat," he said, "something fat and Juicy like a nice little " "Like a n-nice little 1-lamb, you mean!" Mij chattered. "Yes, yes, that's it exactly! A nice little lamb! Where can I find one?" "You can find a very nice lamb around the corner," Hanid said. "Around the corner !" "In the butcher shop," said she. "Hm-m, is It the very best lamb? I don't like anything but the very best lamb." "It's the very best lamb that yon can get in the butcher shop. It's tender as butter and sweet as sugar. We had some for din ner last night." DRY GROUP BACKS SKI'S BILL WASHINGTON. Oct. 9. (AP The board of temperance and social service of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, appeal ed to congress tonight to enact into the law the Sheppard bill to brand the man who buys liquor as a criminal. Bishop James Cannon, Jr., chairman, and Eugene L. Craw ford, secretary, signed the peti tion supporting -the bill, intro duced by Senator Sheppard, demo crat, Texas, author of the eight eenth amendment. The board had previously suggested such a move. The latest development in this new prohibition issued followed an attack on the proposal in the senate by another democrat Hawes, of Missouri who said "it would put another army of mil lions of men and women in the lawless class." GIVEN ICDOILD WASHINGTON, Oct. 9. (AP) In a pageantry of splendor, more than 600 of the capital's elite last night joined Sir Esme Howard, the British ambassador, and his wife. Lady Isabella, in honoring the British prime minister. The brilliant reception at the embassy, roliowing a amner ior the distinguished visitor, Ramsay MacDonald, and his daughter, Ishbel, brought together without question of social precedence Mrs. Dolly Curtis Gann and Mrs. Alice Roosevelt Longworth, whose sta- tus at official functions has prompted gossip in social circiesl for several months. Mrs. Longworth returned to the city last night and after saying' that she would attend no social af fairs, decided later to go to thei reception. She and Speaker Longworth declined, however, aa invitation to the dinner. Vi o President Curtis and Mrs. Gann, were not Invited to this. It was explained at the embassy that di plomatic custom decreed that no officials should be asked over ranking the- secretary of state. BANK BEING FORMED BADEN-BADEN, Germany, 0( t, 9-(AP)-The conference for estab lishing a bank for international settlements after a slow start now is progressing rapidly. WORD HUNT fTrademmrk) Copyright, Alexander Lfo&UaUc- Vatent Fto&ag In the English language there are FOURTEEN WORDS (each aavls )utj SIX letters) that negm wn we ici t One. of them is 11V1E1NIPIE1P 2SV1E1NI 3VjElNl 1 4IV1E1N1 1 51V1E1NI 1 1 61V IE IN r I I 7VEN I 8VENL I 1 9IV1EINI I I IQjVlElNl I MtVlEINi I l2jVEIN I' I3IVIE1NI I ! 141VEN 1 Transferred to another for a pecuniary equlv-' lent. (TOX7 supply tne otners.) The person to whom a thing Is sold. A seller; a vendor. A seller (chiefly in legal vm). A public sale by suction. 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The solution for today's Word Hunt will be found on the Classified page POLLY AND HER PALS 'The Principal Collects Interest" By CLIFF STERRETTj BET VfeR WAD 0Nf THIS COLORED COMIC, JtSS 'CAUSE Hfe R)RSETTH4T I WAS OhJCfc, JIU-JITSU Hy4MPlOrf Of MIPP0NM r have not much companionship and do not even desire It. We are too little acquainted with one another to do more than joke bit and play poker or nap in the evenings. Alongside our camp is the big Russian prison camp. It is separ ated from us by a wire fence, but in spite of this the prisoners come across to us. They seem ner vous and fearful, though most of them are big fellows with beards they look like meek scolded, St. Bernard dogs. They slink about our camp and pick over the garbage tins. One can imagine what they find there. With us food Is pretty scarce and none too good at that turnips cut into six pieces and boiled in water, and unwashed carrot tops; mouldy potatoes are tit-bits, and the chief luxury is a thin rice soup In which float little bits of beef-sinew, but these are cut up so small that they take a lot of m MM fcWNA t BUT Vfe SODS! CRKKN I ggS Hey mw, m AETHER ISTjrj OCOATOUSTH C P-TO HOvi MUCH fe-.. .i i nTUiTArvA cimt-d mi ni r ii uir a n it v-i-i- i i www i - i . a 1 inc. v ie. iS5H. Ki LUNV.n.oci?-' 1 n I I WWII . r- r-nlT -K f Krai "faArPWSWni a, i ttH 1 1 II 60T K, I ----- jrxxx J I - i X fi.U' T am ' I 1 milll I w " - TILLIE, THE TOILER LOW BLOOD PRESSURE MAYBE DUE TO DIET Regularity in Eating, Outdoor Life and Deep Breathing Exercises Will Benefit Sufferer of Low Pulse, Says Dr. Copeland. By ROYAL S. COPELAND, M. D. United States Senator from New York. Former Committionrr of Health, Hew York City. WTE much of the suffering resulting; from high blocd pres- fV urs. We are used to the flushed face and the high color of these patients. They are restricted in their diets and advised to avoid all the things which may be referred to as "blood making foods. But what of the persons with low blood pres sure? They are the ones who need nourishing ! food, appropriate exercise and proper rest. Most cases of low blood pressure follow some i constitutional disorder. It may be an involve I ment of the heart or the kidneys, or the low pres sure may result from some lone continued ner vous disorder. These cases the physician has un- I Very often there is not sufficient pressure to 5 meet the purposes of the circulation. This results i in lack of enerev. headache, loss of vitalitv men. tal depression and general debility. These symp- to ma are met in persons with low blood pressure 1 not caused by any special illness, such as diph- theria, scarlet fever, typhoid or other infectious ! diseases. t A stimtilatina tnnfo m nrmurihoA hv nnv An. tor will do much to benefit you. Outdoor life, CR deep breathing exercises, and proper diet wilt combine to effect a cure. Use regularity in your eating, taking your meals on time. Make it a rule to have nourishing, well-balanced meals. Milk, eggs, well-cooked ."meats and a variety of fruits and vegetables will do much in restoring you 19 vigur. try eaunf was ai a-A. - time but more frequently. This is helpful to one of low vitality. . Attention should be (riven the fnc ' Uoalng- of the kidneys. Have the - urine examined. Make sure the heart is In. good condition. Occa sional talks with your family doctor wiB bo helpful. Low blood pressure indicates low ored vitality and the best thing you can do Is to make it your business for a while, to build up the body. 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