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About Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 21, 1940)
Wednesday, February 21, 1940 l tie capital Journal, Salem, Oregon Seven Henry - By Ann Demarest Chapter One I 19 George Street We were having luncheon that day at a resplendent restaurant on Park avenue. "A tan would be awfully becom ing to you," Toby Bold irrelevantly as he sipped hls coffee. "It Is the natural complement to blonde hair." I ate the last bite of pastry re luctantly and looked across at him. "I have no doubt, Mr. Maug ham, but If you've met up with a newspaper lately you must have noticed that the weather, instead of staying in its proper place on page 23, has moved up to the page 1 headlines. Tills, my young friend, is the worst winter in 55 years and chances of getting a tan are slim. Toby lighted a cigarette, blowing out the smoke lazily. "Swell!" he said. "I've been wanting to meet someone who remembers the winter of '88. How was it?" "For 21 days we were entirely without meat or drink." "It did wonders for your figure," he said smoothly, "But seriously, Chris, give up the idea of this new studio and let's skip for Bermuda."! "With the sunburn as bait," Jj murmured. He straightened his shoulders,! annoyed. "With me as bait," he ;outcd. "You may not know it, sut I'm proposing to you for the sst time." i I took a long drink of expensive ! Ice water. "The people at the next table are enchanted," I said. "But couldn't I refuse you for the last time in the privacy of a taxi?" Toby glared at the people, at me, then called for the check and I looked about with regret. "This," I told myself, "is the last time you're going to lunch in luxury for many a day, Christine How arth." And for a moment, completely replete, I weakened. Life with Toby would be so simple since there was the Maugham money to keep the paths shoveled, but whenever I thought of marrying him I got a queer feeling thai; the Maugham money would completely Inundate the Howarth ambition and that was to paint one really good picture. I had Just come back from Paris 10 days before, full of ambition and strong resolutions. But I'd been away from New York too long. The city seemed strange and I felt a little foreign and bewildered at the changes. If it hadn't been for Toby I'd have taken the first ship back to Havre. "I don't understand you," Toby said a few minutes later as he slam med the taxi door and sat down beside me. I nodded. "I've been having the same trouble with myself." The taxi raced down Park avenue, skidding crazily over the ice, miss ing a truck by a squeak. "You still persist in moving down to that god-awful neighborhood," Toby said between his teeth. I cleared my throat and told him yes in a small voice, without dar ing to look at him. The weather and the Maugham money were get ting me again. We rode in silence until the cab pulled up in front of my hotel, "I'm sailing on Friday," Toby said. "I shall send you carnations," I satd, growing weaker by the mo ment. "You'll regret this," Toby pre dicted darkly. "Probably," said I, "The fare is 45, Buddy," said the driver. And I jumped out of the taxi. turning my back on coral beaches and expensive luncheons. Exactly one week later Toby's malevolent prophecy was fulfilled Huddled in a wicker chair on the fjdewalk in front of my new home I was literally frozen with regret, For weeks New York had been smothered with snow and chatter ing its teeth in zero weather, but of all days I had chosen the coldest to move. The temperature shivered around zero until three in the aft ernoon, then dropped below and By When my furniture and I landed at 19 George street, Mr. Kimball the owner of the house, had gone out to dinner, leaving a sign in the window of his antique shop that he'd return at 6:30. That left three-quarters of an hour to wait. He must have expected me earlier in the day or forgotten that I was moving in. Whatever the misun derstanding I had no keys to the house or to the apartment, so the movers and I had to stay out on the street until he got back. Not that the men were impatient they were being paid by the hour and were loafing snugly in the truck with my furniture strewn all over the side walk. A downtown clock struck six. Half an hour more. Indescribably Dreary I plunged my hands Into my poc kets and resolutely forced Bermuda out of my mind. It was awfully distressing. The street light at the corner seemed unusually dim and a blur of snow in the air made the street seem even darker. The few people who were about padded past on the snowy sidewalk like ghosts. It seemed lmnosslble that such a lonely, deserted place lay so near Fifth avenue. I gave up being a brave girl and In a torment of regret thought of Toby and Bermuda. Whatever had possessed me to move to such a neighborhood? The day we called to look at the studio had been so different). George street lay matter-of-fact and peaceful in the crisp sunny ah. I'd seen an advertise ment in the paper and grabbed Toby and a taxi to have a look at the apartment and was tremend ously Impressed. The old brown- stone house had obviously been a fine residence and even though it was weathered and crumbling it still had an air of distinction. The studio apartment was very attrac tive and I liked the white haired landlord, Mr. Kimball. He had an amazing collection of antiques In his shop and I have a high regard for early American furniture. Toby said it was exactly the type of place a girl from Ohio would fall for, an unkind remark since Id been liv ing in Paris and hadn't set foot in Ohio for eight years. But in spite of that grinning slur I signed the lease and got my furniture out of storage. It was after half past six now and my feet were half an hour colder when Mr. Kimball finally appeared down the street; "Why, Mlss Howarth," he called in the most surprised voice when he was still a few doors away, his eyes widening at my household goods and me littering the sidewalk I'd have shouted except that my face was stiff enough to crack. A sweet figure I made, damp and be draggled, with wisps of hair plas tered against my cheeks by the snow. "This is dreadful," he exclaimed as he came up to me. "I wasn't expecting you until tomorrow. Ishi, the boy who helps in the shop, is away and my niece is ill. other wise there would have been some one to let you in." "I thought I told you I was com ing today, but It doesn't matter," I said as I crawled out of the chair. "I've never been so glad to see any one in my life." He hurried into the vestibule, still apologizing as he unlocked the front door, and the movers, now thor oughly cold and grumbling, bumped my furniture up the steps and into the house with more speed than care. While Mr. Kimball stood in the lower hall to superintend the moving I warmed my hands at the fireplace in the shop. Coming into the warm room made my bones ache. Finally the men left and I went upstairs to my studio, in the rear of the second floor. The place wf desolate and no warmer than the sidewalk. Apparently the maid had decided that the room needed air ing, for all of the windows were wide open and the snow was drift ing in over the sills. Carl Anderson ' Auoeno&M . Brooks Aid Meets Brooks The Brooks Ladles1 Aid met Wednesday afternoon in the church for its regular meeting. Hos tesses for the afternoon were Mrs Mary E. Jacobs, Mrs. Lela Bartho lomew and Mrs. Esta Loy. KSI.M 13G0 KUocycle Thursday I'. M. 6:00 TonlRlH'5 tieaaiinea. 6:30 John B. HurIicb. 6:45 Paging the Past. 7:00 Ozite Nelson's Orch, 7:30 Talk ot the Town. 8:00 News. 8:30 Moon 11 8 ht Melodies. 8:4ft TwlltRht Trails. 9:00 Newspaper ot the Atr. 9:30 FlRlitB Irom Armory. 11:00 News. 11:16 Sterling Young's Orch. 11:30 Kings of Rhythm. 11:45 Midnight Melodies. KSI.M 1360 KHocyclM Friday A. M. 6:30 Milkman's mmooicb. 7:30 News. 8:00 Breakfast Club. 8:30 Keep Fit to Music. 8:45 News. , 9:00 Pastor's Call. 9:15 Piano Impromptu. 0:30 Ma Perkins. 0:45 Carters ol Elm Street. 10:16 News. 10:45 Erwin Yeo's orcn. 1 1 :no Maxlnc Buren. 11:15 El Pasco Troubadors, 11:30 Chas. Opunul's llawalians. 11:45 Value Parade. 13:15 News. -12:30 Hillbilly Serenade. 12:35 Willamette Valley Opinions. 12:50 Musical Salute.- 1:15 interesting Facts. 1:30 Chapel Moments. 2:00 Know Your Navy, 2:30 Johnson Family. 2:45 News. 3:00 Jerry Livingston's Orch. 3:30 Bill McCune's Orch. 3:4ft Marriage License Romances. 4:00 Fulton Lewis, Jr. 4:15 Haven of Rest. 5:15 Thos, Conrad Sswyer, 5:45 Littlo Orphan Annlo. KOIN 010 Kilocycles Thursday P. M. 6:00 Major Bowes, CBS. 7:00 Qlcn Miller Orch., CBS. 7:15 Answer Auction, CBS. 7:45 Sports Huddle, CBS. 8:0O Amos 'n' Andy, CBS. 8:15 Professor Cosmo 'Jones, CBS 8:30 Ask-it Basket, OBS. 9:00 Strange As It Seems, OBS. 9:25 Studio. 9:30 Modernized Light Opera, CBS 10:00 Five Star Final. 10:15 CBS. 10:30 Jan Oarber Orch., OBS. 11:00 Vincent Lopez Orch., CBS. 11:30 Manny Strand Orch. CBS. KOIN 910 Kilocycles Friday A. 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CBS. 2.15 Four Clubmen, CBS. 2:30 It Happened in Hollywood, CBS, 2:45 Scottcrgood Balnes, CBS. 3 00 Lanny Ross, CBS. 3:15 Hcdda Hopper's Hollywood, CBS. .3:30 Joyce Jordan, CBS. 3:45 Today In Europe, CBS. 4:00 Newspaper of the Air. 4:45 Shadows. 6:00 Hello Anftln. 5:16 Dealer In Dreams, CBS. 5:30 Leon F. Drews. 5:45 Bob Garred Reporting, CBS. 5:55 News, CBS. ROW-fiSO Kllnryclet Thursday P, M. 8:00 Good News of 1040. NBC. 8:00 Frrd Waring Pleasure Time, NBC. 8:151 Love a Mystery, NBC. 8:30 Standard Symphony Hour, NBC. 9:20 Thost We Love, NBC. 10:00 News Flashes, NBC. 10:15 Abe Bercovltz, NBC. 1030 Orchestra. NBC. 11:00 Oregonlan News. 11:15 Orchestra, NBC. 11 :30 Florentine Gardens Orch., NBC. Radio Programs n...f""''-i rr""' KOW Kti Kilocycles Frldijr A. M, 8:30 Sunrise Serenade. 7:00 Oregonian News, 7:15 Oresonlan Trail Blazers. 7:30 Musical Clock. 7:45 Bam Hayes, NBC. 8:00 Viennese Ensemble, NBC. 8:15 Stars or Today. 8:30 A?ainst the Storm, NBC. 8:45 Guiding L1sht. 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M. 9:00 Today's Programs. 9:03 The Homemakers' Hour, 10:00 Weather Forecast, 10:01 Music. 10:15 story Hour (or Adults. 10:45 Music. 10:55 The School of the Air. 11:30 Music of the Masters. 12:00 United Press News. 12:15 Farm Hour. 1:00 Music. 1:15 Variety. 1:45 Music. 2:00 Club Women's Half Hour. 2:30 Music. 2:45 Guard Your Health. 3:00 Music. 3:15 Seeing the Americas, 3:30 Music. 3:45 The Monitor Views the News. 4:00 Tho Symphonic Half Hour. 4:30 Stories for Boys and Oirls. 5:00 On the Campuses, 5:30 Music. 5:45 Vespers, By Bud mul - ... .-.,,... rT rTkwii ii '- i-JNV-ift,;- (LtULARA. OUICK.' M REQUIRES. RBJflmt Room and Board . sluce vou're-the master of puffle Towers, we.'ll PUT TWE COMPLAIUT W SouR LAP, - Haw ABOUT SOME. Hot water tor a bath" ? -IVe. let the taucet t?uu a Half Hour , aud THE WATER IS 3UST RliSHT ToR X 1 VJ.A lfc.K JU Klt3rt I rO I I i- - . ..... t By Harold Gray By Gene Byrnes. By Gus Edson By Hal Forrest Jeff Showed Fisher flf Wj, 1 A A PEuGUlU More Speed Than l'aavo Nurmi w 2-2.1 . By Gene Ahern UETiRE To vour Rooms, fiEklTLEMEM, AUU REAfc A bit of shakespeare . while t. 60 haue a look at the Hot water heater hm-m it will cektaiuly be a simple matter tor MAM WHO Utt CHARGE OF THE IMMEUSE BOILERS OU AU OCEAU LIUER "Don't Worry About Me That's Different Exhibit "A" Everything's Against Tommy! f UNFORTUNATELY nUS AMD vith the capital . HAS BE.6N f1T5 I EOU5L,Y SEVERED. ' and Nurmi Was the Flying Finn ine movers were two houn late. 'Continued Tomorrow)
