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About Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980 | View Entire Issue (July 21, 1942)
The Capital Journal, Salem, Oregon , Seven Room and Board O, P" REALLY NCW. TERRY, -TsT THATS WHY J f YOU AREN'T SERIOUS i I LIKE HER., L ABOUT THIS INFATUATION U"EPGE.. JT 'f UilTU Al 1KTT f A rue iklT T5? L I WARN YOU. IF V? WEEK. AND jt SHE KNEW ABOUT 1 SHY -- S II II. ant L ru ir V. i- ' A RAGE AND DO J A I lw 'lOU VKLENCE .'J ' J IllllllltiP SYNOPSES: The only brcaK in Melissa Marlowe's lonely life In her Rrandmoth er's cabin beside the Mississippi had been the sudden appearance of an exhausted young hunter from New Orleans one day In a storm. Melissa had played and sana for him, and had felt a little ro mantic about It all. But he left and sent no word, and now her Grandmother has uied, and one of the neighbors Is making her an offer for the cabin, Chapter Five Big City Melissa's hands clenched tightly in her lap and for a moment she was very still. Three hundred dollars! It was a vast sum! She'd never had more than ten dollars at one time in her life. With three hundred dollars g"-, she could why, she could go to f. , New Orleans; maybe get a job, ' singing! She might even see Randy Hendricks again! She caught her breath at tha thought and her face burned with color, while she tried to tell herself she was a fool even to think of Randy because he would not remember her Jim, who was studying her anxiously, brought forth from his pocket a baking-powder tin, unscrewed the lid and pulled out the money it held, counting out to her the limp, tired-looking, dirty bills. "Me and Sally's been savin' for years to get us a better place," he explained. "And if you want to sell out, Lissy well, here's the money. Three hundred dollars and I got a paper here that will make it all legal and binding if you want to sign. Of course, if you don't feel like it's a fair price we can fhfc wait till the lightship comes again and you can ask Cap'n about it but I think he'd say it was fair." "Of course, it is, Jim," an swered Melissa swiftly, her voice shaken a little. "And I'll take it. I don't have to wait for Cap'n's advice." Jim's heavy, friendly face lit up a little and he nodded. "Well, I'm right glad, Llssy. Sally's powerful anxious to get moved. Claims she ain't ever had en ough room to plant the kind of flowers she wants, and with your Gran's garden doin' so well" Melissa's hand shook a little as she signed her name and ac cepted the limp, greasy-looking bills that had been buried in that baking-powder tin back of Jim's house for no one knew how many years. A week later she was in New 1 'Orleans. The moment she stepped from the dirty, plodding little old riv er-steamer that plied between the mouth of the river, down the Gulf, to New Orleans, she knew that her clothes were out of date and "funny-looking" and a vast wave of homesickness so keen as to be almost physical swept over her. The noise, the confusion, the nubbub all about her confused and frightened and bewildered her. The heat was much worse here in these baking streets than back beneath the shade of the friendly live-oaks, with the river-wind touching her cheeks People stared at her; two girls laughed at her; a man whistled - at her with a peculiarly irritat .Jlng whistle that, although she did not quite understand it, made her face burn. A taxi-driver stared at her and said tentatively: "Taxi?" "Yes," said Melissa grimly "Drive me to the best hotel." "Hop in, lady," said the taxi driver. She huddled tn the taxi, watching while the streets rock eted past. She held her breath as her taxi grazed other cars and escaped by an incredible inch. The clamor of the surface- , cars, the screech of brakes, the roar of a large city lay upon her like physical blows beating ner down. Where was the thrill, the ex citement, the delight she had O gleefully expected? Wildly, she wished that she were back at the cabin, tending her light, feeding her chickens; sitting on the porch with her guitar across her By Gene A hern THE LADY TOR ME WHEN I FUST SAW HER.TEWPER..' EARS LAY1N' BACK.. EYES NARRCW AN GLINTING LIKE A DAGGER BLADE, HER NOSTRILS SET FOR A BRONCO SNORT,- fa&Alll v ROBERTA knees, plucking at the strings and singing lazily and peace fully. "Here y' are, lady," said the taix-driver, and the car slid to a stop in front of an imposing looking building. A doorman swung open the taxi door with a flourish and then looked as though he wished he hadn't when Melissa, in her shabby home-made blue cotton dress and the three year old straw hat that she had ordered from the mail order house, stepped out. There was a straw suitcase which belonged to her mother, She handed the taxi driver a dollar bill, observing that the fare was sixty cents. The taxi driver pocketed the bill, touch ed his cap, said, "Thanks lady," and went whirling off before she could demand her change. Inside the hotel the clerk looked at her curiously, hesitat ed and then said politely, "What can I do for you?" "I'd like a room, please," said Melissa, and added with unex pected spirit, "A nice one, please." The clerk's cynical, world- wise eye swept over her as he turned the register about for her and asked tentatively, "With a bath?" "Certainly with a bath," an nounced Melissa. The clerk filled in a number after the place where she had written her name and glanced behind her. A grinning bell-hop significantly held up the batter ed straw suitcase, and the clerk said suavely, "That will be sev en dollars a day, Miss Marlowe in advance." Melissa was staggered but set her teeth. Seven dollars a day! And back at the cabin she and Gran had lived all month on ten dollars in cash. She laid down some bills on the counter. The clerk said briskly, "Oh, yes, you're plan ning to be with us a week? That's fine, Miss Marlowe. I hope you will be very comfortable. Boy, take Miss Marlowe to 618." To Melissa the room was a marvel of beauty and elegance. But the thought that it was costing her seven dollars a day and the memory of what an aw ful hole that week's rent had made in her fortune was appall ing. She Was no fool. She knew that she must get a job and soon; but she knew, too, that first of all. she must have cloth es, city clothes. She looked lov ingly at the hat that had been her "best" (and only!) hat for ,three years; the dress that Grans gnarled, rheumatic fin gers had made for her; the thick bright, shiny stockings that had seemed to her so beautiful and for which the mail-order peo pie had charged her forty-nine cents, a sum to be regarded with respect along the river back country. But before she went out to buy the things she knew- she must have, she took up the tele phone book and looked up a name. Yes, there it was, "Ran dolph Hendricks," followed by an address and a telephone num ber. Her hands shook a little. She reached for the telephone and then shyness and panic took her. Would he remember her? Oh, he had to! He must! She couldn't bear it if he didn't! She would call him, she promised herself; but later, after she had made herself over into a city girl. The thought gave her courage, to face what lay ahead. She picked up her bag and went out into the glaring sunlight. New Girl The big shops frightened her. She walked and looked in win dows and once or twice she even ventured into one of the big de partment stores. But the well dressed people, the air of su perb assurance that all the sales girls fore frightened her, and she retreated to the street again. Finally a small shop in a side street lured her. She was hot and frightened and bewildered by now, but desperate, And when a tall, bored-looking blonde girl came toward her, wise blue eyes taking her in from the top of that awful hat she had a vague idea of just how awful it was, by now to the tips of her scuffed, dusty white canvas shoes. Melissa was ready to burst into tears. "I want a dress," she said un steadily. "And a hat and some shoes and and things The blonde girl's blue eyes raked her from head to feet and were about to dismiss her with superb contempt. And then the too wise blue eyes met the des perate, pleading intensity of frightened, red-brown eyes and for a moment the two girls star ed at each other. The blonde girl grinned suddenly a gay, friendly, heartwarming little grin and she said, unexpectedly kind, "Well, I don't blame you for that but don't take it so hard, keed we've got plenty of what you need right here." (To be Continued) Radio Programs KSLM 1390 Kilocycles Tuesday P. 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AUNTIE PRISS- I WANT THEM TO MAKE JV J BITTER OLD WOMAN-I AT ALLYOUVE THAT BRINGS A yS3U SEEM LIKE CALL YOU ANNIE DO VOU STILL N THIS WHOLE HOME ' I'M NOT EVEN A J JUST BEEN TERRIBLY YOUNGSTER LIKE AN AUNT TO AUNTIE V J WANT TK JUNIOR THEIRS CHILDREN- ' KINDLY OLD ft HURT THAT'S ALL! VOU INTO MY J ME--A VERY PRISS- ' COMMANDOS TO USE k I WANT THEM ALL 3RANDMA"I Mi TIME IS CURIN' k V LIFE" FAVORITE J D'YOU ". TH- OLD STABLES OVER THIS PLACE- ) 1 1 fc ' J IND? jj Reff'lar Fellers Hv :Pn,. Byrnes Patriotic Hoarding i IT SAYS HERE THAT ' WELLWHAT ARE. OWYiMOMINE7 Iva' WERE TOO QUICKS 1 EVERY HOUSEHOLDER ORTER, K. 'we WAITIN FOR, PUD V GET 7 WE'VE SOT S IpV. WMeRt ) f FORME, MOM 1 (ril Efe HAVE A SUPPLY OF SAND ON HAND 1 ) I KNOW WHERE WE KIN TH'VWSOt4 SAND ENOUGH IN ) II V. IS T ? ) I WAS GONNA TELL YOU l II pIksSII lN ?ET lj The Gumps By Gus Edson No Place Like Home I p Tarjan Rv FMirnr Ripe Rnrrontrh Fiery Arrows jlf BUTTEEONE y)lDIEI,SNAd W'lM.fJPTivi 'Vt '" " 1 llfa.u sjy , l .OLf ETi THAN THE l?EJT, WHO CON - ' e! dlW WWr "TOWARD THE AKENA1. HE INSTRUCTED HIS SJjnin1Wt! CEIVEO A PIAN TO HMT THE. 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