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About Eugene register-guard. (Eugene, Or.) 1930-1983 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 21, 1939)
I THE REGISTER-GUARD, EUGENE, OREGON U WARM 0 TIME COPYRIGHT, l3B. NBA SERVICE. INC. BY ELINORE COWAN STONE vvtV L down an impulse l S-,t i it, Barney? fM WilS1 with an arti- ti: for which she k 'Dinner's practically ( urn' " Rnvnev asKea. ttr(! li-t before we eat. I0-!.,?"" She tried to F'hm he Bald to her lit k"e".; h nrh a fool! I1!'. to be worried L ... eVl C fre minute.- f" illffle sWfly. her hands M V t,n to keen them rjking'toomuch. E.;i Jan Barney miiu, EWS spoke, "you see I"-"1! tior-sn of leisure. Cword". vour husband has u.u . unem- ,f.e lew R t...t aid. her voice tnin fLdm in her own ears. nny,"Barneywt ISwthe inside story of city fc national corruim...., . ... CfjMi trickery, and I didn t ftaovr what was going on be- own sheet funs. Janet, that the News .i.. .nrfs for several Mffl on me . I" The owner was counting JJJjt Well, the loans w-ere ia from someone u imu rL.. for keening that Id mine out of print " E i understand, ' Janet flaintly In a moment. "Then b did they puonsn any ui n Kill the owner's been hunting nitre in the wiias wnere me '..Lj ,-tiae wouldn't cet to J."VJ . t u,on 1 lill a or to ago that old Owlface, (J really Knew any muie I ie financial angle than I v ha'e out on his neck. t'dtril. with me at his heels I nod measure. ... I could have n rA enlH thpm the riehts Kfsiory and let them print it h the hot pans Kineo in avcr j yellow faces . . . But, Janet, tot" .. . )! course vou rouldn t, Janet I hntlv. "Anvhow, you'll get fte: job in no time." w. .'" Ma cairi it a little too .- - , L'-,',. ha liolltnH a ritfarpt wcxrn; " "- "o..-" o last a job I'm worried about. l-wiat a flop I have turned out to be, Jan after all the tall talking I've been doing." Suddenly Janet knew she couldn't bear the look in his tyes any longer angry, yet snamed and beaten, aDove nis careiui smile as if apologizing to her, begging her to understand. With a son rush she was beside him; and tak ing his head In her arms, she pil lowed it on her breast, her cheek against his forehead. "Oh, Barney, darling!" she mur mured. "They can't do this to you! I love you too much." "When you really love a man," Cynthia had said, "you feel like his mother sometimes. That's one way you know." For a moment Barney sat mo tionless. Then he lifted his head and looked at her, and as if com pletely satisfied, drew a deep breath, dropped his head again, and put his arms around her. "This is the way it ought to be, Jan," he said. "The rest of it doesn't matter now." But it would matter again, Jan knew, terribly. And so she held him all the tighter. So they sat, without knowing how long, while the peas dried up on the top of the stove, and the souffle burned to a crisp. Finally they went out and dined on sieak and mushrooms at the Auberge, because, Barney said, there was nothing so good for the morale ns spending money when you hadn't any. Not that it was quite as bad as that. The rent, at least, was paid for a month. Janet had her month ly stipend . , . Barney winced a little when she mentioned that, but said, "Swell! We may need it" And Barney still had a little money in the bank. It would have been plenty, he said, if he hadn't had to make that chase across the con tinent on his own time because the boss had decided the story wasn't worth following up after all. But it developed that jobs were not growing on every tree. The other papers had already reduced their staffs. Barney made one or two trips to neighboring towns where he knew editors, only to come back with his grin a bit more strained each time. In the next few weeks Janet learned a great many things she had never guessed, even during those comparatively pinched last months with Aunt Mary. She learned that one laundry bill may completely wreck a week's budget, and spent several back-breaking days over the tubs In the basement. She learned that, if windows are to serve their pur pose, they must be washed from FLAPPER FANNY By Sylvia - COPfi. 1919 BV HIA JEBVlCe. WC. T. M. MO. O. S- f AT. Off.- 7 mm n't care WHERE thp mi. nrot Tf m cotta have mousetraps in the files, they oughta be in the MV' SIDE GLANCES Mi: j, a sensation walking down the street hack rttiic stgi,yirj u4 t&wi every 10 stc."'' time to time; and that it is en tirely possible to do it Yourself clinging with one hand and work ing with the other while vou hang suspended over a ditty uu abvss She learned to elbow her wav about crowded, untidv market because they are the ones where food is cheapest. She learned that 50 cents for the electric meter mav seem an enormous item, and that some people can't afford roses even at 25 cents a dozen. The first time Barney found her on her hands and knees, scrubbing the kitchen floor, he turned white, lifted her bodily out of the way, and finished the job somewhat splashily himself. Janet laughed at him. "How did you think these things usually got done, you crazy Irish man?" she asked. "I suppose vou imagined the Little Folk came 'out of their hiding every night and did the day's chores for poor but deserving housewives. We re luckv to have plenty of water to wash the floor with. Where Cyn is, they buy it in barrels." Nevertheless, thev got on fa mously till the day Barnev skid ded on an icy road. The hill for his own car was SI", besides $87 for the car he hit; and the liability insurance had lapsed the day be fore because, Barney reasoned, there was no use spending money for insurance if you drove with reasonable care. The morning after Barney told her that. Janet said, trying to sound very matter of fart. "I think we'd better plan to move the first of the month. While I was mar keting yesterday, I saw some places advertised on 32nd Street for half what we're paying here, and " "You're not going to live on 32nd Street." "And why nof" Janet tried for a note of cheerful practicality. 'It's convenient to all sorts of things. . . . More so than this. . . . We can take something unfurnished and get some of Aunt Mary's things out of storage." "When we move from here." Barney said through tight lips, "it will be because we're moving to something hotter." Nevertheless. Janet did go house-hunting next day. She did not wear her fur coat this time: but a shabby tweed suit and an old hat. (To Be Concluded) LITTLE ORPHAN ANNIE FROM WALTON WALTON, Feb. 20 (Special) Preston Reeves is remodeling his house on the old Reeves place. Dinner guests at the Henry Car lile home recently were Mr. and Mrs. Orrin Snellstrom of Vaughn, Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Snellstrom of Eugene, Audry Turnbull and Bill Carlile. Elmira Christian Endeavor came to Walton church to visit and hold Endeavor with the Walton young people. The meeting was led by Francis Quigly. GIVE MUSICAL PROGRAM YONCALLA, Feb. 20. (Spe cial) The student body sponsored a musical program at the gymna sium recently. Mr. Arthur Wells played the banjo, bassoon and saxophone; Mrs. Wells played the piano, saxophone and sang. 1 hey had with them a young man who played the accordion. I I l j i : RUSSELL C. DONALDSON (above). 15-vear-old Connells ville, Ta., youth Is shown in a Pea body, Mass., hospital w here he was taken after belne rescued from a boxcar which had been his prison for a week. He was sealed In the car at Unrlchsvllle, O.. thlnklne It was one routed tn Florida. He was a week without food or water, be ing found when the ear. loaded with drainage pipes, was finally opened. He was recovering. The Dickens You Say By HAROLD GRAI HELLO. V1CKEY. OLD GAL HOW .J i f on. melvinI U MELVIN me REErA SO WORRIED ABOUT YOU - WHY DIDNT YOU WRITE f WELL, I MEANT TO.i OH , I'LL BUT rVE BEEN PRETTY BET YOU'LL BUSY---MEETING BIG WRITE P08LISHeRS---SHOWS I WONDERFUL HAD TO SEE GETTING STORIES IDEAS --MWERtAL NOW. ALL NIGHT LOTS OF A WON'T YOU? NIGHTS-- WELL. IF I COULD HAVE STAYED IN THE CITY A UTTLE LONGER THAT'S WHERE THINGS HAPPEN - LIFE PEOPLE - AH - YES - - f PEOPLE - - PEOPLE - J 'PEOPLE COME-PEOPLE GO- WHERE DID I HEAR THAT ONE ? OR WAS IT, PEOPLE -JUST PEOP W1 Pi YOU! YOU'LL NEVER LEARN TO APPRECIATE SERIOUS THINGS YOU RE ALWAYS PICKING AT MELVIN - W I n .J no Imagination-! in fancy i srr pkking at a lyre l-y--r-e- NOT L--I--A--Rf AND I GUESS THE WORD IS PLUCK. NOT PICK HM-Mn GOOD IDEA THERB- . iv i ii m n B n l. a i n Rfl rihnve). Seattle llifh school eirl, anxtontlj awaited word of one of the' passrnger aho.nd lh.- Marine Airway" P'ane nnm ,.- . . ..-!. . n fllrht. Six pprnns were belle ed aboard the cralL 1 i i nights . fe. r-,, im POPEYE No"' Showliic "Rockabye Baby on the Treetop." Tomorrow "So Ya Won't Talk!" gy SEGAR SECRET AGENT X-9 The G-Man in the Lady's Net By ROBERT STORM An acrobats net breaks the dizzy plunge of x-9 and mr.tu-den from THE RAFTERS OF THE THEATRE. 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