Friday, August 22, 1941
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INSTALLMENT FOUR—The Story So Far
The Maguire* ar* giving a dinner
•ar the Newsum*. Shirley Maguire and
Jaird Newsum ar* engaged but Mr*.
Newsum would Uke to see her son
marry Connie Mays, daughter of Coe-
* *
lngton's wealthleit citizen. Mik* Ma
guire I* a happy-go-lucky editor and
mayor of th* town. Kathleen, younger
daughter, is furious at Mrs. Newsum'*
patronizing airs. A stranger had helped
*
•
camellia* on a bosom that was al
ready overshelved.
fix a flat tire for her and kisses her.
He tell* her he is a newspaper man out
of a Job. The first to arrive tor th*
dinner are Laura's son. Tom. and hit
wife. Mary Etta.
POOR CUTTINi
RUINS WOODLOT
Carelessness Endangers
New Stand, Profits.
|
dk issing
l-l «hl V
Dear Ma
Well, 1 gess maybe I will be tossed
Into Uie guard house again or *hot
or put peeling
more
potatus
land 1 don't know
witch is wor*cr).
I got one of them
post cards from
the Sen. Wheeler
First . Committee
and what I read
tn the newspuper* about all the fuss
being made about it makes me aw-
ful nervous. I Only some good luck
will save me. I wrote a note to
the President like the Senator asked
me to aaymg I was against getting
into the European war. <! did not
say positively though.) And I ex
plained while 1 was against it I
wood go peacefully if ordered.
Kathleen slid out the door, At
breakfast Laura had been impres
"How do you do. Laura’ How very sive about th* solemn significance
Mary Etta was already moving
By EKED TRENK
of the occasion. But Mike was just
Into the living room. Laura put her pretty you look," murmured Mr.
tlTvfension Furexrtr. L/mvaraHy of
as
likely
as
not
to
forget
to
come
Slake
Newsum
while
his
wife
stiff
hand on Tom'* arm. She did not
Wl«CO*Sf*J
to dinner when there were guests.
mean to detain him more than a ened.
Not
nil
of
the
wreckage of war
"Maude looks good enough to rut."
It was not an auspicious opening But to her relief a* she came down
minute. Mary Etta was suspicious
to be found on the other side of the
"He eurefulI They say she via-
the
hall
Kathleen
heard
his
voice
as
Laura
knew.
She
wished
the
gen
of private conversations between her
water Rising log and lumber prices
ploys artificial coloring matter."
husband and hi* mother. She had tleman would keep his gallantry at at the rear. He usually came in have caused many farmer* to “cash
been determined when she married home. But Jaird'* father was never the side door because there was a
one to catch nuances. He beamed short cut across a vacant lot that in” with their marketable trees.
not to be “mother-in-lawed.”
Regardless of who does the cut
on Shirley and from her to Jaird who saved time from his office.
"Isn't business any better, Tom?”
ting. there are two things any tim
had
taken
Shirley's
hand
was
look
"Dadi
”
she
called
imperiously.
asked Laura.
I
ing down at her wih an expression "Don’t you realize you've only ten ber owner must bear in mind if he
"Better I haven’t made enough
has
any
hope
of
ever
making
a
sec
that for a moment made of her heart minutes to make yourself presenta
this week to resole the shoes I've
ond cut first, he has to keep all
a delirious singing bird.
ble’"
worn ouL”
livestock out so that young tree
"Handsome couple.” murmured
She jerked open the screen door
"I'm sorry."
seedling* and sprouts have a chance
Mr. Newsum. "I always said so.”
as she spoke. She meant to chase
"But Mary Etta's raking it tn. so
His wife gave him one of those Mike up the rear stair* a* quickly to grow; and second, the slash, or
I should worry.”
looks meant to drop a husband in as possible. Only it wasn't Mike limbs, tops and waste parts of tree*
resulting from logging or wind dam
Again Laura winced. But she said his tracks. And Laura nervously into whose arms she catapulted.
age must not be allowed to burn in
nothing. Because there was abso flung herself into the breach.
niNriHt
"Oh!” cried Kathleen.
But even this was wrong and only
one
large, destructive fire.
lutely nothing to say. And Mary
"What a perfectly charming dress,
"Exactly," | grinned the black-
THPOU6H THE
Woodland owners who fully under a letter I just got from Nellie Pe
Etta was already glancing toward Bell«."
headed man in I faultless white flan- stand timber values and who can tersen keeps me trom a nervus
Uff. or «C/AW.E
them with narrowed eyes. Accord
“Do you think so?” murmured the nels.
rypE
estimate closely the volume of mer breakdown It seems I wrote a let
ing to her philosophy, a man's moth lady, slightly mollified.
ter to Nellie the same time I wrote
"Kathleen." bcamed Mike Ma-
piecokeeep By
er made trouble between him and
"Who could help It?” contributed guire, "this Is Ritchie Graham, a chantable timber on their land are to Washington, and by mistake I
in a position to realize a larger re
his wife if she could. Mary Etta Tom, back-stopping for Laura.
JOHANN
gentleman and a scholar after my turn through a lump sale of stand put Die letter about not getting into
was exactly like a prickly cactus.
MTÍH9ÍK6
Mrs. Newsum was making like a own heart”
the
war
in
Nellie's
envelope
and
ing timber. However, unless they
Ready to stab at the least excuse.
IN 1454-
ship in full sail for the love seat in
Kathleen stared into the sardonic are fully protected by contract, sent to Mr. Roosevelt the letter 1
She was determined to have from one corner of the room. It was the
meant
for
Nellie.
life exactly what she demanded of most uncomfortable piece of furni gray eyes of the irritating young small trees, so essential to a future
it And yet in spite of her clipped ture in the house and unless sat in man who had rescued her from the stand, are frequently sacrificed in
This wood seem a good break 1
efficiency, Laura had occasionally at just the right angle it had a horri ditch and kissed her and laughed the jogging Job.
There are means of selling timber gess but 1 am not two sure becuz
glimpsed something in Mary Etta's fying trick, due to weak underpin about it The man she had most
by which the selling price might be how will the President know? The
defiant black eyes that resembled nings, of closing up under an occu ardently desired not to see again.
"I’ve brought him to dinner," an increased, and the future productive letter he got Just began "My Darl
panic, absurd as that seemed in con
pant It realjy should have been
rué (ferret way to treat
ness of the land be protected. This ing Nellie" and what will he think
nounced her father with triumph.
nection with her.
relegated to the dust heap week*
COMSÍlfWtúN CUE ID LACK OF
"I hope it is all right. Miss Ma is by having all trees of merchant of a private calling bis superior a
She was private secretary to Har ago. only there just hadn't been any-
PkWU? 'flUtK* IN THE PIET IS TO
guire." murmured Ritchie Graham. able size measured for their con name like that’ In the very first
vey Cobb Leigh, one of the most
cottecr the cause of the
sentence
of
the
letter
witch
he
has
tents,
and
to
have
such
trees
powerful cogs in state politics. He
He was grinning. He knew she
TROUBLE WITH a peucious
was also a contractor in a big way.
was furious. So did Mike. And they "blazed" or marked so that a pur it says "Remember all your prom
cereal , keuocc ' s ,
.
And he accumulated money with
both laughed. They were undoubted chaser would know definitely what ises to me my dear,” and what is
AU:
»HAM.
..EAT
to
keep
him
from
thinking
I
am
trees
are
to
be
cut
and
what
are
to
very few scruples about honesty.
ly soulmates, thought Kathleen with
IT EVERY DAY
Mary Etta had gone straight from
helpless rage. Even though they did be left. Such a selection might be talking about the very promises
MV ORMLfUMTY
a business course in high school
not look a lot alike. Mike was al on the basis of an arbitrary mini 'mentioned on that Wheeler post
Of WATER.
into his office. She had brains and
most as tall and lank as his guest mum diameter of trees to be cut, card? He wifi nqt know I am Just
she could keep her mouth shut
Only he was fair. He had a thin, or it may provide for the removal talking about the promise* Nellie
When she married Tom she was al
clever, boyish face, blue eyes that of trees based on their present con Petersen made to me about not
ready handling most of her employ
were irrepressibly gay, and a droll dition. rate of growth and on their dancing with Sergeant Mooney no
Establish a Standard
er's private correspondence.
mouth. His crisp russet hair was effect on other trees growing under more and about marrying me if I
Let ua raise a standard to which
ever
get
through
kitchen
police
du
or
near
them.
lightly grizzled at the temple*. He
Tom had not wanted her to go on
the wise and honest can repair;
ties
was forty-five, but he carried off his
working. Mary Etta had pointed out
the rest is in the hands of God.—
years
as
insouciantly
as
he
did
ev
the folly of doing anything else.
George Washington.
I
think
that
the
letter
witch
1
erything else.
She was earning almost as much as
sent to President Roosevelt by mis
"I suppose both of you would go
Tom in the big real estate agency
take also says I am holding him
This
is
sn
excellent
time
to
start
into a decline if I said it isn't all
where he was learning the business.
to every promise he made last year
right
Like Ned you would.” a poultry breeding Improvement
He planned to start for himself
wh.it Ductor* do f<*r it
Dr. W C. Thompson, witch means Nellie's promise* about
growled Kathleen. "Do come in and program.
eventually. But as Mary Etta said,
DoetsM« lnw.w that gaa trapelai la l»w
«*
professor of poultry husbandry at always being true to me snd not ffxilUt may art lite* a hair - trigger «*«i th* hmrt lhary
he lacked capital. She saw no rea
stop cluttering up the door sill”
•at tfwa frwa with tha faataM - arti»* maatUrOwa linuwn
the
President's
campaign
promises
-U m faataat art litea «ha Ma*D-1naa In itali ana
son why they should skimp along
Mike sniggered. "Don’t mind the the New Jersey college of agricul but he will not know this I am Tattnto
Try Hell a«« lodsy If the FIMJtT
on next to nothing when she could
kitten's claws,” he admonished his ture, Rutgers university, says that afraid. I think 1 closed this letter dnaea't pr-.v. lieti • ana better, return bottle tn na and
rwavira
DOUtiLfc
nwmey harte. *•. at ail drug »t^sa.
drag down a monthly salary check.
companion.
"She only scratches such a program should be quite eas- with a line like "I am very serious
So she didn't resign. And she an
those she loves. Come up to my ily established on many farm*.
about this, honey bunch, and if you
“After the pullets approach ma-
nounced that she did not intend to
room, my boy, while I slick down
Ufa a Gift
go back on your word and try to
turity, select the superior individu
until Tom’s earnings took a decided
these old gray locks.”
Whatever u man has, is in real
two-time me in any way 1 will take
turn for the better.
Kathleen stood at the foot of the als. Use every bit of information no nonsense.*’ You can see what a ity only a gift.—Wieland.
stairs and glared after them. How which may be available in this proc fix I am In, ma
Unfortunately they traveled in the
Every time I
opposite direction. The depression
on earth was she going to tell Laura ess. Place numbered aluminum leg see an officer coming my way I
bands
on
the
best
25
per
cent
House
knocked the bottom out of the real
that as usual. Mike had spoiled ev
think General Marshall has sent for
estate game early. From being on
erything by one of his preposterous the remaining 75 per cent of the me.
a fairly decent salary, Totn was re
gestures in behalf of a perfectly oncoming flock in quarters where
Mrs. Newsum was making like a
duced to a strict commission basis.
strange man who had no earthly they can be forced for maximum
1 am in bad with Nellie two on
ship in full sail for the love seat.
Cranky? R*«tl**s7
This during the past year had all
business to have precipitated him safe egg yield.
account of she docs not know what
Can't aleop? Tire
"House the best quarter of the to make of the
but dwindled to a thin mist There thing to fill up the wall space. So self into an already overstrained
■ eaatly? llo< ui>« of
flock separately and keep records letter witch she
di. tree* of monthly
was no longer any question of Mary Laura had trusted to luck and situation.
funrtlnnal disturbances? Then try
on them.
Trapnesting for one got from me and
Etta’s resigning her position. For pushed it back into the most inacces
Lydia E. Pinkham'* Vegetable Com
year, starting October 1, is highly witch
months Tom had been coming to the sible corner. Only of course if there
meant
CHAPTER VI
pound.
desirable.
point where he could contribute was any weakness in the enemy's
for tiie President
Pinkham’s Canpound 1» famous
"As trapnesting records accumu She says that I
nothing to their common expenses armor, Belle Newsum could be
for relieving pain of Irregular ix-rioda
As a matter of fact, the crisis
and
cranky nervouane»* due to null
late,
apply
minimum
standarda.
It
while Mary Etta’s salary continued trusted to discover it Laura had a resolved itself without fatalities. It
am a louse for
disturbance*. One of the moat effec
to increase. Laura knew the situa horrible vision of Jaird’s mother be was exactly like Mike to sow drag is suggested that bands should be ever writing it in
tive medicines you can buy today
removed from individuals which the first place
tion was blistering Tom’s sensitive
for thia purpose — made ev’cciolly
ing precipitated into the middle of ons' teeth and reap love apple*. Just
/or
women. WORTH TRYING I
failed
to
lay
50
or
more
eggs
between
male pride.
seen
Nellie
1
Every
time
I
have
the floor and refusing to trust her as Kathleen was turning back to the
October
1
and
January
31.
or
which
have
told
her
I
was
every
inch
■
"Oh. hello, Shirley,” murmured weight again to anything in the Ma living room the telephone rang.
failed to average 25 eggs a month fighting man and that war held no
Mary Etta as her husband’s older guire house. But Kathleen caught
"Kathleen?” Alex was speaking
for March, April and May; or which terrors for me, no matter whether
Doing of Revenge
sister appeared in the doorway.
the storm signal and acted.
and his voice was a trifle thick, a
failed to show a persistent produc* it was on home grounds or where,
Revenge converts a little right
Mary Etta did not care for Shir
"Dear Mrs. Newsum.” she ex bit inclined to run up the scale at
ley. She bluntly said that she claimed rather breathlessly, "what the end of words. "Tell Mother I tion of at least 50 eggs between June so I look pretty foolish to her writ Into a great wrong.
1 and September 30."
ing a letter to the President that
thought Shirley belonged in the lav do you think of the plans for the can’t make it for dinner.”
I am against any war that takes me
ender and old lace school. But Kath June fete?”
"Alec! How could you?”
far
away from home.
leen got on better with her sister-in-
Quite dexterously she interposed
“Sure. I’m a rat to do the run-
• • •
law. Mary Etta held Kathleen at her slim self between the lady and out when she's staging a family
arm's length as she did all her in the point of collapse. Mrs. Newsum,
Come what may. ma. I am In a
shindig. But that’s how it is. And
laws. But she did not take it as a delighted to be allowed to tell about you can't do anything about it. So
tough spot and I feel two worried to
personal insult if Tom asked Kath the very important committee of
write more now except to close say
Does the motor of your tractor
take the air.”
leen to look them up when she was which she was a member, permitted
ing I love you like always.
overheat? If it does, G. W. Mc
"I'm not talking about that. You
in town. Mary Etta herself never herself to be ensconced in a sub
Your loving son,
Cuen, farm engineer, Ohio State
know what I mean.”
UE to dietary indiscre
proffered such an invitation. Of stantial wing chair. And Laura
Oscar.
university,
suggests
checking
to
"Do I? What of it? You don’t need
tions, change of drink
course she worked and she and Tom sighed with exquisite relief while
see
if
the
fan
belt
is
too
loose,
jf
ing
water or audden changes
had only a one-room efficiency in an Kathleen winked at her over the to tattle to Mother, do you?”
»
Ima
Dodo
wants
to
do
her
part
there is an accumulation of dirt
"Don't worry. I shan’t. She still
apartment hotel and took most of guest of honor’s elaborately mar
in weather can tie quickly
In the "V" campaign, so she is
on
the
outside
of
the
cooling
fins
thinks you are worth getting all
their meals out But. as she bluntly celled head.
relieved by Wakefield’s
wearing a V-neck sweater.
of the radiator, if the tubes in the
hot and bothered about.” Kathleen
explained, it wasn’t that Mary Etta
Blackberry Balsam. For 94
• • •
"Shirley,” whispered Jaird jn a
radiator
are
clogged,
or
if
the
wa
just did not propose to be used as a voice that was not quite steady, "do soberly replaced the receiver. She
years a household remedy.
ter
jacket
of
the
cylinders
is
bad
TWEET!
TWEET!
convenience by her husband's fam you remember that you were wear and Alec had fought from the time
Sold at all drug stores.
ly limed.
The St. George hotel at Bermuda
they
were
both
in
romper*.
There
ily.
ing blue the first night I kissed
Be sure to ask for genuine
Is
now
occupied
by
the
U.
S.
engi
If
the
tubes
of
the
radiator
are
were less than two years between
Kathleen, eyeing her brother’s you?”
neers corps, the picturesque Inve
partially clogged with slime, Mc
their
ages.
To
the
casual
observer
wife, wondered as she had before
Did she remember? Shirley looked
rurie is occupied by the British
Cuen advises this may be cleaned
how Tom ever came to fall in love down at the soft clinging folds of they seemed always at the point of
contraband control, the Bermudian
out by filling the cooling system
mayhem.
Actually
they
were
tre
with anyone who made such an art her blue lace gown. She looked
and Princess have been iaken over
with a caustic solution such as
mendously fond of each other. And
of being thoroughly unpleasant. Pri stately and a little aloof. Like a girl
by the censorship bureau and the
half a can of lye in four to five
Kathleen,
although
she
had
no
in
vately Kathleen thought Tom was in a painting. Very cool and re-
Compound
Elbow Beach hotel will soon be oc-
gallons of water, or one pound of
tention
of
telling
Laura
so,
was
getting fed up. And she didn’t blame mote. And not quite real, But in
A
cupicd by U. S. navy officials,
sal soda to four or five gallons
heartsick
about
Alec.
He
had
been
him. He looked as if he had been side she was a cauldron of seething
Custom a Habit
good regulation honeymoon in that
of water.
drinking. That was why he was not
on a steady diet of cockleburr*.
emotions. Did she remember? Her
Custom is nlmost a second na
country seems pretty difficult just
showing up for dinner. That meant
A
safe
way
is
to
heat
the
solu
"Hello, Kits. Gunning for big heart sobbed, It said all sorts of
ture.—Plutarch.
now.
he had been somewhere with Myra
tion and stir it. Then put the so
frantic things, But her lips only
•
•
game?” he asked with a grin.
Boone.
lution
in
the
radiator
cooling
sys
Kathleen made a face at him. "It smiled—very faintly.
THE HONEYMOON IS OVER
“Darn cradlesnatchers with bion-
tem and thoroughly heat it up
"Yes, I remember,” said Shirley
ail depends on how you feel toward
The two lovebirds
dined
hair
and
motheaten
morals!
”
by
running
the
motor.
This
gen
Mamma Newsum,” she said, then as if it did not matter.
Are having words;
muttered
Kathleen
under
her
erally takes about 15 minutes,
Jaird looked white and baffled.
squeezed his arm. "Sh! Here they
No more you see ’em kissing;
breath.
after which the solution may be
Laura,
under
the
cover
of
Belle
come. My sainted cow, doesn’t she
She
tried to cook
drained
and
the
cooling
system
She
couldn
’
t
see
how
Alec
could
Newsum’s tiresome monologue on
look like Mrs. Astor’s pet horse?”
Meals from a book , . .
thoroughly flushed out before re
go that sort of thing. It was such a
her own prominent connection with
The Newsums were just emerg
And Page 14 was missing!
filling with water.
all prominent social functions in pity he had to finish school the year
ing from their handsome closed car.
—Merrill Chilcote.
brand
new
electrical
engineer*
were
Covington, managed to whisper to
J*.rd gave his mother hi* arm. Shir-
• • •
a drug on the industrial market.
Kathleen.
lay. looking out the window, felt the
LUCK
L DUE TO GASTRIC HYPER »ACIDITYJ
"Where on earth do you suppose Aiec was a bundle of nervous ener
Rtfl* wayward jerk which the sight
gy. He was better suited for any
Luck and pluck go hand in hand,
your father is?”
v.m always gave her senses. He
Lightning rods have an efficiency
Pluck is Luck’s big brother;
Kathleen spread her hands hope thing on earth than idleness. Mike 1 of 97 per cent if properly
wm probably in no way extraordi-
construct- Luck will never come along
had
tried
to
find
him
something
to
lessly.
"Heaven
alone
knows.
Want
<7 tart he always seemed so to
do on the newspaper. But Alec hated ed and installed.
Unless you bring the other.
obtained by thousands
<»r
J wtt Jaird with his clean-cut me to see if he can be located?”
Inspection of rodded buildings
it.
He
was
created
to
make
things
—Gordon R. Higham.
"He’s got to be,” groaned Laura.
through tiaa of V«n't Pink
* a 4 steady blue eye», yet he
• a •
which have been struck by lightning
happen,
not
to
write
up
the
exploits
Tablet* — without rigid
“Hulda can't hold dinner forever.”
all of heaven and hell
generally
uncover
one
or
more
of
liquid diet! Simple home
of others. With no outlet for his dy
Simile by R. Roelofs Jr.
As pa
treatment. Learn ell ebout
th
Maguire.
namic desire to make the wheels go several defects, the Board states. tient as a chairman of a chess tour-
it. Write today — no obli*
zi. ha H mv was mincing along in
faster Alec was, or so it seemed to These include lack of grounding to nament.
nation. 900,000 ueere.
•
•
•
Written
Guarantee ae to
permanent
moisture,
insufficient
z po-v« that were a gize too
Kathleen, cooking up a merry little
BOOKIE T Â
Money Beck. Bead out
,«....11
1.-4/ chiffon gown was
k.
A
hell all his own, aided and abetted number of points, particularly at
Jumpy Julia, the most nervous
guarantee, eent with fro*
booklet. Write to —
*
< v<tf • • could be depend-
by the worldly Mrs. Boone, a chimneys, cupolas, gables and other guest at Ye Seaside Inn, hopes the
,v
k kyx'l the effect of any
wealthy divorcee thirteen years his elevations; points and connectiens gasoline economy drive begins with
.,<z ■ t » jarring note,
not electrically secure.
senior.
the outboard motor fanatics.
2«pMXj0j B .public Bld* , toottie, Wovk
the huge pink
(TO BE CONTINUED)
CHAPTER V
A
errar.
Select Breeding Hens
Before Culling Layers
INDIGESTION
Nervous Restless
Dirty Cooling System
Causes Hot Motors
DIARRHEA
D
Wakefield’s
BLACKBERRY BALSAM
(>/ fGi
Lightning Rods
A SELECTED STORY
BY A GIFTED
AUTHOR
Stomac n
Uke
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RELIEF
SEATTLE VON CO.